Valió la pena reaches the spot in the top of the sales
09/10/2015The publication of Valió la pena (It was worth it), the book of memoirs by the diplomat and ex-director of the CNI Jorge Dezcallar, has not left anyone indifferent. Three days after its launch, the second edition came out just as it reached the spot in the top 100 general sales on Amazon.es, ranking in what in the last few days climbed to number 7. But Valió la pena has not been distinguished only for the great number of sales. The book has secured a space in a great number of Spanish media and also has provoked reactions of important figures from the political sphere, mainly as a consequence of the declarations that the author made in his memoirs about the government’s management of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid Some of the highlighted press links about Jorge Dezcallar’s work: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/24-horas/24-horas-jorge-dezcallar-lealtad-tiene-limites-01-10-15/3307761/ http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-intermedio/revista-medios/jorge-dezcallar-comunicado-cni-11m-creo-que-gobierno-manipulo_2015100800361.html http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/09/30/actualidad/1443641174_514625.html http://www.cope.es/player/escucha-la-entrevista-a-jorge-dezcallar-en-herrera-en-cope&id=2015100514170001&activo=10
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El anticuario de Teherán
A gold, coral and aquamarine necklace that an Iranian antiquarian begs Jorge Dezcallar to send to his daughter… This is how this book begins, in which a Spanish diplomat reviews his years as an ambassador—in Morocco, Washington and Rome—and recalls some of the personalities—ministers, kings, players and presidents—with whom he has shared diplomatic negotiations and also, at times, unforgettable evenings. Fishing conflicts with Morocco that put both countries’ relationship in serious danger; clumsy attempts to offer the MoMA a Velázquez in exchange for the Guernica; a Moroccan banquet that does not get started till the lamb sent by the king arrives; thank yous in the form of enormous crates overflowing with soles and hakes, or a declaration of war with Russia that no one recalls for more than two hundred years… These are some of the stories that run through these pages, full of moving moments, fun, heartbreaking or simply surrealist, but always fascinating, and written by someone who thanks to all that he has lived, has learnt to be “tolerant, to contrast my points of view with others and to accept that, above the varnish of races and languages, human being are essentially the same and seek the similar things by different means.”
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Valió la pena [It was worth the bother], by Jorge Dezcállar, bestseller before publication
01/10/2015Today Valió la pena reaches bookstores, the memoirs of the diplomat Jorge Dezcállar. The notes and memories of Jorge Dezcállar include his years as ambassador in the Vatican; in Lebanon, after the assassination of the former Spanish leader Pedro de Arístegui, or his mission in the United States and his participation in the Dayton Conference for pacification of the Balkans. Dezcállar was also director of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, (the Spanish secret services), when the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004 took place. The readers’ interest in Dezcállar’s experiences and the wish to know all the details of what took place has placed the book, published by Península, in the leading positions of the bestsellers lists, climbing to the second place in its category weeks before its publication.
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