The Country Under My Skin
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The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli
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 joined the FSLN in 1970 and was a member of the Nicaraguan underground resistance until 1975, when she was forced to flee the secret police of the Somoza administration and go into exile. She took involved in various logistical activities throughout her exile. She held official roles when Somoza was deposed and the Sandinistas took control, but she abandoned her political responsibilities in 1986 to pursue a career as a full-time writer. She spends time in both Managua and Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375403705 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375403701 |
| Title | The Country Under My Skin |
| Author | Gioconda Belli |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2002-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 380 |
| Prizes | Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2002 |
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