The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli recounts how she grew up in an upper middle class family and became a member of the Sandinista movement fighting the Somoza dictatorship. She describes her life as a revolutionary, smuggling weapons and working underground while raising children and writing poetry, and her later role in the Sandinista government. The memoir is a story of politics, love, motherhood and the costs of revolution.
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- Shane Parrish: “An unbelievable memoir. Gioconda Belli was born into an upper middle class family in Nicaragua, and ended up joining the Sandinista movement in the 70s in their efforts to overthrow the government.”