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

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

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (â€œA wonderfully free and original talentâ€â€”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 insiderâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2002-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375403705

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2002-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375403705

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

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