Pais Bajo mi Piel

Memorias de Amor y Guerra

Gioconda Belli

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Vintage
01 March 2001

Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; History of the Americas; Gender studies: women; Politics & government; Political leaders & leadership; Languages & ESL; Spanish - Biography; Spanish - Non-fiction; Spanish - Languages

"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."

By: Gioconda Belli
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9781400034390
ISBN 10: 1400034396
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 March 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Pais Bajo mi Piel: Memorias de Amor y Guerra

Impactante . . . una historia verdadera de pasion, poesia, insurreccion y muerte. . . . Es un relato apasionante contado con ternura, honestidad y humor. -- Los Angeles Times Esta es la mejor autobiografia que he leido en anos: un relato apasionado, lirico y sin corta-pisas de una vida extraordinaria en el arte, la revolucion y el amor. Es un libro para disfrutar, para leer y releer. Inolvidable. --Salman Rushdie La memoria de Gioconda Belli se lee mejor que una novela. Relata sus extraordinarias experiencias como revolucionaria, amante y madre con honestidad, pasion, inteligencia y, sobre todo, poesia. El Pais Bajo Mi Piel es tanto la historia de un pais como la historia de los grandes suenos de una mujer fuera de lo comun. --Cristina Garcia Rara vez el amor y la revolucion se han entretejido tan provocativa y esplendidamente como en esta memoria heretica del viaje sensual e intelectual de una mujer que se descubre a si misma en Nicaragua. --Ariel Dorfman