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Gioconda Belli (Author)
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October 14, 2003
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.

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“Impactante . . . una historia verdadera de pasión, poesía, insurrección y muerte. . . . Es un relato apasionante contado con ternura, honestidad y humor.” —Los Angeles Times

“Esta es la mejor autobiografía que he leído en años: un relato apasionado, lírico y sin corta-pisas de una vida extraordinaria en el arte, la revolución 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, pasión, inteligencia y, sobre todo, poesía. El País Bajo Mi Piel es tanto la historia de un país como la historia de los grandes sueños de una mujer fuera de lo común.” —Cristina García

“Rara vez el amor y la revolución se han entretejido tan provocativa y esplendidamente como en esta memoria herética del viaje sensual e intelectual de una mujer que se descubre a sí misma en Nicaragua.” —Ariel Dorfman

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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.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (October 14, 2003)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 1400034396
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400034390
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bella Gioconda, August 15, 2004
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This review is from: El pais bajo mi piel (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Gioconda is another magnificent representative of the Latin American generation of authors that emerged in the seventies and eighties amidst social turmoils. Gioconda's artistry of words and poetry are evident throughout this book. Also the book arrangement, i.e. two threads set at two different time periods of her life, if not innovative fits nicely to convey her passionate, powerfully feminine message. This is perhaps the strongest point in this autobiography: the utmost defense of "las compañeras" in her struggle for equality and respect.

Other little jewels are Gioconda's experience with iconic men like Torrijos and Fidel. These two anecdotes deserve to be in a study of the human condition: even in an egalitarian or progressive mind, machismo can be present.

My 4 out of 5 star rate for this book is related to the author's ambiguous political position after the collapse of Sandinismo. In the last part of the book her message comes forth blurred by Gioconda's comfortable upper middle-class life in a serene Californian homestead. Suddenly, all that life-commitment with the revolution becomes a Sunday afternoon TV movie on "Oxygen" or "We". Then several pages, filled with apparently extensively meditated explanations, try to justify why she chose comfort to revolution. Personally, I think she closed the circle (as she likes to repeat through her book): she came back to her cradle in a solacing environment. Eventually, she goes back to Nicaragua to plunge back into "people's struggle" while being aware that she can always return to his Californian refuge. Not exactly a revolutionary life.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gioconda Belli se convirtio en mi escritora favorita luego de este libro, October 3, 2011
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Un viaje sobre los amores, la vida y la historia de Nicaragua a traves de la experiencia de esta gran escritora.

Un libro que todo el mundo deberia de leer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The naked heart of a dreaming woman, April 14, 2009
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It's a great story, told in prose by a poet, but between the lines the verses of poetry perspire..perhaps an ambiguous relation, but isn't life dual after all, an amalgam of contradictions?.. I'd say that she is too benevolent with the Sandinistas, but as someone who has also left Nicaragua pushed away by the very particular circumstances that we all Nicaraguans have lived through, I understand her feelings and feel deeply identified with her agony- I was but a young Sandinista soldier once...nothing should transcend our own human condition- I could have died by then and wonder now what for- talking on our own humanity, we begin to turn less human by the measurement of letting anything stand above our own being,whether to become a saint, a martyr, a demon or a killer. At the end, I think Gioconda understands this very well, for she knows now that she is just like all others, a citizen of humankind, from here I'd say to her: Bravo Poetisa!
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