{"product_id":"the-country-under-my-skin-a-memoir-of-love-and-war-9781400032167","title":"The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (\"A wonderfully free and original talent\"--Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-23977\"\u003eGioconda Belli\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400032167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1400032164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO022000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS007000\"\u003eLatin America | Central America\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL043000\"\u003ePolitical Process | Political Advocacy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGioconda Belli's poetry and fiction have been published in many languages. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Inhabited Woman, \u003c\/i\u003ewas an international bestseller; her collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eLinea de fuego, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize in 1978. \u003ci\u003eThe Country Under my Skin\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen as one of the best books of 2002 by the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and was nominated for a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award in 2003. She lives in Santa Monica and Managua.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688598442221,"sku":"9781400032167","price":23.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c2759825-99e1-4826-adf4-6f55355caa95.jpg?v=1649789072","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-country-under-my-skin-a-memoir-of-love-and-war-9781400032167","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}