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Reconciliación: Memorias / Reconciliation: A Memoir
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Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresFrench History
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9786073938143
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: Spanish
EL LIBRO MÁS ESPERADO DEL AÑO
Las memorias en primera persona de Su Majestad el Rey Don Juan Carlos.
Mi padre siempre me aconsejó que no escribiera mis memorias. Los reyes no se confiesan. Y menos, públicamente. Sus secretos permanecen sepultados en la penumbra de los palacios. Por qué le desobedezco hoy? Por qué he cambiado de opinión? Porque siento que me roban mi historia . Esta obra, escrita en primera persona y cuya publicación es en sí un acontecimiento histórico, viene, en efecto, a reparar esa situación. Si Su Majestad ha decidido dar cuenta de su historia después de casi cuarenta años de reinado, es porque el traslado a Abu Dabi, parte de la opinión publicada y, por qué no, los propios errores han acabado por ensombrecer su trayectoria y sus aportaciones fundamentales al éxito de la democracia española.
Reconciliación relata en detalle la parte privada de una vida pública. Son unas memorias ricas en anécdotas que no eluden los episodios más significativos de nuestra historia reciente, pero tampoco las alegrías ni los malos momentos de su vida íntima y personal. Un recorrido que empieza en un país inmerso en una guerra cainita y con un joven Juan Carlos anclado a un destino que no le pertenece, pero que paso a paso, eludiendo mil complots y ganándose la confianza de unos y otros, acaba convirtiéndose en el actor principal de la transformación radical de España en el estado moderno y próspero que es hoy.
Escrita a corazón abierto y sin concesiones, la obra navega entre los dos exilios que marcan el principio y final de su vida --el obligado, en Estoril, y el voluntario, en Abu Dabi-- y por ella transitan muchos de los protagonistas más destacados de la historia contemporánea. El monarca, en el crepúsculo de su vida y lejos de su familia, se dispone a hacer su última confesión. No tengo derecho a llorar , dice. Pero tiene derecho a buscar su anhelada reconciliación con el país que tanto ama y añora.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTHE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
The first-person memoirs of His Majesty King Juan Carlos.
My father always advised me not to write my memoirs. Kings do not confess. Especially not in public. Their secrets remain buried in the shadows of palaces. Why do I disobey him now? Why have I changed my mind? Because I feel my story is being stolen from me. This work, written in the first person and whose publication is itself a historic event, seeks to set the record straight. If His Majesty has chosen to tell his story after nearly forty years of reign, it is because the move to Abu Dhabi, part of the published opinion, and--why not--his own mistakes have cast a shadow over his legacy and his fundamental contributions to the success of Spanish democracy.
Reconciliación (Reconciliation) recounts in detail the private side of a public life. These memoirs are rich in anecdotes and do not shy away from the most significant episodes of recent Spanish history, nor from the joys and hardships of his personal and intimate life. It is a journey that begins in a country torn by civil war, with a young Juan Carlos bound to a destiny not of his choosing, who--step by step, dodging countless plots and earning the trust of many--ultimately becomes the central figure in Spain's transformation into the modern and prosperous state it is today.
Written with an open heart and without concessions, the book moves between the two exiles that mark the beginning and end of his life--his forced exile in Estoril and his voluntary one in Abu Dhabi--and features many of the most prominent figures in contemporary history. The monarch, in the twilight of his life and far from his family, prepares to make his final confession. I have no right to cry, he says. But he does have the right to seek the longed-for reconciliation with the country he so deeply loves and misses.
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