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I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975

I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 - Paperback

by Kathleen M. Osberger
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathleen M. OsbergerPublish date:2023-08-18Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Orbis BooksISBN-13:9781626985476ISBN-10:1626985472UPC:9781626985476Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.25 x 6.11 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCJ5PHT774

In September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer from Notre Dame, left for Santiago to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon arrival, she was told a secret: the religious women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet's secret police. Given the ever-tightening vise over the citizenry, brave and prophetic people reached out to protect the dissidents' lives in a world without due process and where detention, torture, disappearance, and death reigned. Soon, Osberger is handed a blindfold, a warrant, and must go on the run.

I Surrender depicts the solidarity of the Chilean people and the transformational role of nuns and priests dedicated to serving the poor, while highlighting the changing and challenged Catholic Church.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Orbis BooksISBN-13:9781626985476ISBN-10:1626985472UPC:9781626985476Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Latin AmericaBook Topic:South AmericaSize:9.25 x 6.11 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCJ5PHT774

Kathleen Osberger earned her B.A. at the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. from Maryknoll School of Theology, and an A.M. from the University of Chicago-School of Social Work Administration. Her life was shaped by volunteer experiences when she lived in San Miguelito, Panamá; Santiago, Chile; Chimbote, Perú and the South Bronx. In 1987 she began a seventeen-year relationship with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners as an instructor in their orientation to mission program. In 1993 she joined the University of Chicago Hospitals--Department of Psychiatry. Her work as a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist has centered on the issues of trauma and torture. She currently lives in Chicago.


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