En febrero de 2013, se rompió con una tradición de más de seiscientos años: el papa Benedicto XVI, antiguo protector de la doctrina y leal heredero de Juan Pablo II, hizo un anuncio sin precedentes al comunicar su renuncia debido a su avanzada edad y la decision de adoptar el título de papa emérito.
A las pocas semanas, las majestuosas puertas de la Capilla Sixtina del Vaticano se cerraron, y los cardenales comenzaron un nuevo cónclave, el segundo en menos de una década, y en el que tendrían que elegir al nuevo líder espiritual de una Iglesia con más de 1200 millones de seguidores en todo el mundo. Cuando las puertas se abrieron de nuevo unos días más tarde, el carismático Jorge Bergoglio, bajo el nombre de Francisco, resultó elegido papa.
¿Por qué Benedicto, el papa más conservador de la era moderna, hizo un acto tan poco tradicional e inimaginable?
Este libro nos relata la historia de una extraña pareja, de dos hombres muy diferentes, cuyos destinos convergen e influyen profundamente el uno en el otro. El papa es una narración de no ficción ,humana, divertida y conmovedora.
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Anthony McCarten es un novelista, dramaturgo, escritor de televisión y cineasta nacido en Nueva Zelanda. Es más conocido como guionista de las películas biográficas La teoría del todo, El instante más oscuro y Bohemian Rhapsody.
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On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign. Reeling from the news, the College of Cardinals rushed to Rome to congregate in the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. Their unlikely choice? Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,200 years, a one time tango club bouncer, a passionate football fan, a man with the common touch.
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour, The Two Popes is a fascinating, revealing and often funny tale of two very different men whose destinies converge with each other - they both live in the Vatican - and the wider world.
How did these two men become two of the most powerful people on Earth?
What's it like to be the Pope?
What does the future hold for the Catholic Church and its 1 billion followers?
The Two Popes is a dual biography that masterfully combines these two popes' lives into one gripping narrative. From Benedict and Francis' experiences of war in their homelands - when they were still Joseph and Jorge - and the sexual abuse scandal that continues to rock the Church to its foundations, to the intrigue and the occasional comedy of life in the Vatican, The Two Popes glitters with the darker and the lighter details of life inside one of the world's most opaque but significant institutions.
From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister-soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away.
It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour. A day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative of this crucial moment in history provides a revisionist look at Churchill-a man plagued by doubt through those turbulent weeks-but who emerged having made himself into the iconic, lionized figure we remember.
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten, read by Sean Barrett.
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership.
May, 1940. Britain is at war, European democracies are falling rapidly and the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror - and a sceptical King and a party plotting against him. He wonders how he can capture the public mood and does so, magnificently, before leading the country to victory.
It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative. In doing so he revises the familiar view of Churchill - he made himself into the iconic figure we remember and changed the course of history, but through those turbulent and dangerous weeks he was plagued by doubt, and even explored a peace treaty with Nazi Germany. It's a scarier, and more human story, than has ever been told.
