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Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Masai culture. Every girl got the cut, and once you did, you'd be married off to a man triple your age. You might be his second or third wife. You'd have children in your teens. This is exactly what happened to Nice's sister. To resist the cut meant becoming an outcast in Masai culture.

This is the question that has perplexed the public about Marina for the simple reason that she is the daughter of the man who has governed Malaysia for almost twenty-four years. Does she echo him in his view of the world, or does she chart her own path? Why is it that in her own public life, in her writing and speeches, she expresses opinions that seem to contradict his? This book hopes to detail how she has navigated her life as the daughter of a charismatic politician and a loving father, even as sometimes she has chafed at being constantly under his shadow.

Fonolibro se enorgullece en presentar el Audiolibro “El árbol deshojado” de Fernando Sucre, es una biografía del Dr. Arístides Royo y el entorno en el cual le tocó vivir. Con muy buena prosa, el Lic. Sucre va llevando al oyente con gran habilidad a recorrer la vida del ilustre panameño, ligada a todos los acontecimientos que se dieron en esa convulsionada época.

Poeta guerrillero peruano nacido en 1942, desde muy niño mostró un gran interés por el estudio y la literatura, ocupando el primer puesto en 1958 a la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad Católica del Perú. Su tempranísima muerte, a los 21 años, privó al Perú de seguir gozando de su prometedor estilo poético.