Tras casarse muy jóven y ser madre, Gioconda Belli se unió al clandestino y emergente
movimiento Sandinista, sustituyendo su deseo de ser una buena esposa por la necesidad
de 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 la
fachada que le permitió funcionar, secretamente, como rebelde. Desde su infancia
en Managua y sus encuentros iniciales con poetas y revolucionarios, a persecuciones
urbanas, reuniones con Fidel Castro, relaciones amorosas truncadas por la muerte
o el exilio en México y Costa Rica, hasta su inesperado matrimonio con un periodista
norteamericano, la historia de Gioconda Belli es tanto la de una mujer que se descubre
a sí misma, como la de una nación que forja su destino.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
""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.
