Joke Traats Libros

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book." --The New Republic From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, "A Problem from Hell" draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of once classified documents, and accounts of reporting from the killing fields to show how decent Americans inside and outside government looked away from mass murder. Combining spellbinding history and seasoned political analysis, "A Problem from Hell" allows readers to hear directly from American decision-makers and dissenters, as well as from victims of genocide, and reveals just what was known and what might have been done while millions perished.

El jardín de los Finzi-Contini, la novela más conocida del italiano Giorgio Bassani, un retrato de la burguesía judía de Ferrara al tiempo que una historia de amor no correspondido. El protagonista narra con nostalgia, en este relato de tintes autobiográficos, el desmoronamiento en la Europa fascista de la elite judía, distante, incapaz de aceptar la realidad y de prever el sombrío futuro que les aguarda, una elite encarnada en la familia Finzi-Contini. Su amor por la hija, Micòl, y el posterior desengaño sentimental, marcan el tránsito de la adolescencia a la madurez.