Name: The Country Under my Skin: A Memoir of Love and war (in English)
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Author: Gioconda Belli
ISBN: 9781400032167

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Gioconda Belli

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1400032164

ISBN13

9781400032167

Synopsis "The Country Under my Skin: A Memoir of Love and war (in English)"

"A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforgettable." --Salmon Rushdie An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ("A wonderfully free and original talent"--Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join the Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest, and often most dangerous, levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider's account of the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: about her family, her children, the men in her life; about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and the life she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of the Revolution; about her current life, divided between California (with her American husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustained and sustaining passion for her country and its people.

Gioconda Belli

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(Managua, 1948) Poeta y novelista nicaragüense. Publicó sus primeros poemas en 1970, causando un gran revuelo por la forma en que abordaban el cuerpo y la sensualidad femenina.Su primera novela, La mujer habitada (1988), ha sido traducida a catorce idiomas con enorme éxito y ha obtenido numerosos premios. Escribió sus memorias sobre el periodo sandinista en El país bajo mi piel (2000).

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