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An inspiring book about one the most emblematic figures of contemporary politicians.

“A few years ago, when Mujica was elected president of Uruguay, the world discovered a different politician. He lived with little, he spoke his mind and expressed more as a philosopher than as a former guerrilla turned-politician. From a young age he was heavily involved in activism, he lived the sixties from the revolutionary trench, he spent the seventies in the darkest catacombs of dictatorship and in the nineties he participated in the growth and success of the left to become president of his country. Mujica has completed his government with high popularity, economic and social outcomes praised worldwide and specific measures that will be remembered. He has done it combining two antithetical realities. The ideological conception and life style of an anarchist and the functions of a president that concentrates the greatest power of the state ”
Allan Percy

Amb Ulls de Nena (With Girl’s eyes) is the overwhelming diary that Encarnació Mantorell i Gil wrote during the Civil War, when she was barely a teenager. For seventy years, these documents have remained hidden in a closet in the Horta neighbourhood in Barcelona and therefore unpublished. But thanks to the work of the pedagogy researcher Salvador Domènech, they are now revealed.

The girl Encarnació was seventy years ago portrayed her everyday life on the rearguard: the lack of stock in the stores and the high prices of food, the shame of going out with shabby clothes, the euphoric moments and the pessimism arisen from the ups and downs typical from the war and the toughest moments of death, destruction and loss of her loved ones.

Encarnació still lives in Horta.

Written with humor and a human touch, this book features Silvia Tarragona’s adventures and misadventures about her body. She gained weight after her father’s death, and because of it this journalist experienced discrimination and mock first hand.

Memorias de una gorda feliz (Memories of a Happy Fat Girl) gathers a series of hilarious anecdotes that give much to think about what lies behind the world of diets and physical appearance.