Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre
One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet's coup. Eight days after landing in Lima, and still perplexed by their mother's disguises and lies, they're off again, on a bus bound they know not where. They are then to spend most of the next decade, the 1980s, moving from dictatorship to dictatorship, evading capture, torture and peril at every turn. It is no way to spend your teenage years, until, overnight, it becomes the way Carmen herself chooses.
Carmen Aguirre is a celebrated playwright and actress. She has written or co-written eighteen plays and she had a lead role in Quinceañera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Something Fierce is her first book. She lives in Vancouver.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846272028 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846272025 |
| Title | Something Fierce |
| Author | Carmen Aguirre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2012-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Canada Reads! 2012 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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