false 61030 10 An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (&#8220;A wonderfully free and original talent&#8221;&#8212;Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. <br><br>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.<br><br>Her memoir is both a revelatory insider&#8217;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.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 895846 2000 The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War total:301|5:132|4:107|3:40|2:17|1:5| 301 1247 419 67 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 12 08:33:35 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 08:35:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 11:53:39 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 09:16:41 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 23 08:08:56 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 08:14:01 -0700 2008
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