Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Belli, Gioconda |
| Publisher: | Vintage Espanol |
| Date: | 10/14/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Tras casarse muy jóven y ser madre, Gioconda Belli se unió al clandestino y emergentemovimiento Sandinista, sustituyendo su deseo de ser una buena esposa por la necesidadde vivir una vida plena y comprometida con los cambios sociales en su país.
Irónicamente,su pertenencia a la burguesía y su carrera como poeta renombrada, le brindaron lafachada que le permitió funcionar, secretamente, como rebelde. Desde su infanciaen Managua y sus encuentros iniciales con poetas y revolucionarios, a persecucionesurbanas, reuniones con Fidel Castro, relaciones amorosas truncadas por la muerteo el exilio en México y Costa Rica, hasta su inesperado matrimonio con un periodistanorteamericano, la historia de Gioconda Belli es tanto la de una mujer que se descubrea sí misma, como la de una nación que forja su destino.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Apassionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art,revolution, and love. It’s a book to relish, to read and .” –Salmon Rushdie
An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfullyfree and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the SandinistaRevolution.
Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon:sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs anddebutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970,everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life, and ablossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to jointhe Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She wouldbe involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest, and oftenmost dangerous, levels.
Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolution and avivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinarycircumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about herpersonal and political lives: about her family, her children, the men in herlife; about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and thelife she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of theRevolution; about her current life, divided between California (with herAmerican husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustainedand sustaining passion for her country and its people.
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