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"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."--Amazon.com.… (meer)
Wederom een mooi verhaal van Gioconda Belli. En bovendien één waarmee je een belangrijk hoofdstuk van de (revolutionaire) geschiedenis van Latijns-Amerika mee hebt. Ik kocht het boek op de boekenbeurs op de stand van Amnesty International, deels om die organisatie te steunen, maar vooral omwille van de herinnering aan één van de betere leeservaringen uit mijn leven, nl. dat van de "bewoonde vrouw." Haar eerste roman, die vele prijzen kreeg, is als je eerste treinrit door een spectaculair tropisch landschap waarbij de vochtige wind je warm in het gezicht waait.
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We fill the craters left by the bombs/ And once again we sing/ And once again we sow/ Because life never surrenders-------------anonymous Vietnamese poem
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this book is dedicated to Chepita, Alicia, Eda, Anita, Cristina, Maria Elsa, Nidia, Petrona; and most especially for Socorro Ruiz, Beatriz Mancilla, Dolores Ortega and all the women who helped me on the home front, and without whom neither this book nor the life I have led would have been possible. For my children, Maryam, Melissa, Camilo and Adriana. For Charlie.
Eerste woorden
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With each shot I fired my body shuddered, the impact reverberating through every last joint, leaving an unbearable ringing in my head, sharp and disturbing.
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Laatste woorden
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Somewhere within my soul she had her place; a love that was waiting to bloom years even before we actually found each other.
"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."--Amazon.com.
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