{"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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414962278674,"sku":"9781400032167","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e2160d49-63bf-4c5e-8052-1dfe3dc0ddf1.jpg?v=1729391860","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-country-under-my-skin-a-memoir-of-love-and-war-9781400032167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}