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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gioconda BelliPublish date:2003-10-14Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781400032167ISBN-10:1400032164UPC:9781400032167Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Latin America, Political ProcessBook Topic:Central America, Political AdvocacySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCNGKX6CCV
"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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781400032167ISBN-10:1400032164UPC:9781400032167Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Latin America, Political ProcessBook Topic:Central America, Political AdvocacySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCNGKX6CCV
Gioconda Belli's poetry and fiction have been published in many languages. Her first novel, The Inhabited Woman, was an international bestseller; her collection of poems, Linea de fuego, won the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978. The Country Under my Skin was chosen as one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times and was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award in 2003. She lives in Santa Monica and Managua.
Publisher: Anchor Books

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