Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781553654629 (1553654625)
Publish date: April 18th 2011
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Politics,
Womens,
Canada
I think my favorite thing about this book is that Aguirre doesn't pull any punches. She describes the different fears that were a part of her life, the way people looked after beatings, and her belief in what she was doing. She relates what happened around her and what she did and that she wasn't ju...
blurbs - Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Carmen Aguirre was always destined to become a revolutionary. After Pinochet's violent coup in Chile in 1973, her family is forced to flee to Canada. And when, a few years later, the Chilean resistance calls for exiled activists to return to fight...