Cuéntame

Cuéntame is a book with 50 motivating short stories in Spanish with diverse themes of great interest that are educational and entertaining. They include guiding morals to live by, practical and instructive ways to enrich oneself on a personal level, and promote healthy, positive relationships with our fellow man. The stories incite people of all ages to live their lives to the full and benefit from all their experiences.

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle,...

Dice el autor: «En la Argentina, país de cuenteros en todo sentido, resulta un enigma la segregación tácita del cuento de la jerarquía mayor de la literatura».

A long-time friend of the wife of the governor of Florida recounts Columba Bush's childhood in modest circumstances in Mexico, her romance with student Jeb Bush, and her life in the family of two presidents of the United States.

Un muchacho que se pierde en las calles de la Florencia del siglo XIV... asi comienza un espeluznante misterio que combina fe, arte y alquimia... Sin embargo, cuando la Peste Negra y la Inquisicion causan estragos en su querida ciudad, Luca sobrevive solo para resolver dos enigmas. Uno es el estigma de sus padres y de su eterna belleza. El otro, una eleccion entre la inmortalidad y la unica oportunidad de encontrar el verdadero amor. Mientras Luca recorre el Renacimiento, entabla amistad con Giotto y Leonardo da Vinci (con una diferencia de 140 anos), y persigue los secretos mejor guardados...