The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

A Passionate, Lyrical, Tough-Minded Account Of An Extraordinary Life In Art, Revolution, And Love. ItS A Book To Relish, To Read And Re-Read. Unforgettable. --Salmon Rushdiean 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 InsiderS 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.