Pedazos De Cristal - Tapa blanda

The book is constructed of three parts. The first, which describes the origins of Latin-American man in his family environment, work, everyday life, and his emerging questioning of and search for answers in a society that is eternally divided. Second, we travel down a detailed testimony of the civil war that plagued El Salvador in the 1980's. In the final part, we find essays that narrate the coming of the new millennium and September 11th, that changed the face of freedom in North America and the life of immigrants forever. Through these essays, the author connects man's diverse facets in the continuing struggle to show the greatest gift that God gave to man, which is to live among brothers in this planet, as the ultimate paradise. El libro consta de tres partes. La primera parte describe los origenes del hombre latinoamericano en su entorno familiar, detrabajo, de vivencias y el comienzo intrincado del que busca respuestas en unasociedad eternamente dividida. La segunda parte detalla en forma testimonial laguerra  fraticida que sufri El Salvador. La tercera parte, en forma de ensayos relata lallegada del nuevo milenio; el 11 de Septiembre, que cambi la libertad enNorteamerica y la vida actual como emigrante, donde enlaza los diversos aspectosdel hombre en su continua lucha, tratando de mostrar que el regalo mas grandeque Dios nos dio, fue vivir como hermanos, en este planeta, como ultimoparaiso.

Arnoldo Ponce was born in El Salvador in 1945, and since youth began his apprenticeship learning about the different currents of existentialists, attempting to discover true identity of man in this earth. His life long wish to write from an early age, was derrailed for a lack of encouragement and he dedicated himself to the Insurance business as means of support. Ponce imigrated to the United States with his family, due to the lack of life security in his native land. Upon reaching his goals in North America, he decided to begin writting about his experiences and thus begin his work as verbally painting the reality of modern man before a world that is convoluted, as well as the plight of the spirit of man to win over materialism. It is in this way that his anthology of poems, "Pedazos de Crystal," was born. Arnoldo Ponce, naci en El Salvador en 1945. desde sujuventud comenzo su aprendizaje estudiando las diferentes corrientes existencialistas, tratando de descubrir la verdadera identidad del hombre eneste planeta. Sus deseo de escribir atemprana edad se vio truncado por la falta de apoyo, dedicandose a los Seguros. Emigra Los Estados Unidos con su familia, dada lafalta de seguridad en su Pais. Logrando sus metas en Norteamerica, decidi empezar aescribir sobre sus experiencias y comenzar el trabajo de mostrar la realidaddel hombre moderno ante un mundo convulsionado y la lucha por lograr que el espiritu del hombre pueda triunfar ante elmaterialismo; es asi como nace su antologia de poemas "Pedazos de Cristal"