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What You Have Heard Is True

Language EnglishEnglish
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Book What You Have Heard Is True Carolyn Forche
Libristo code: 24142825
Publishers Penguin Books, March 2020
'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Riveting . . . int... Full description
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'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco ChronicleAn electrifying memoir set in the Salvadoran Civil War:the true story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fireCarolyn Forché, an American poet, is 27 when a mysterious stranger called Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. Her friend has heard rumours about who he might be - a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a motorcycle racer, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer - but nobody seems to know for certain. Captivated for reasons she doesn't fully understand, she accepts his invitation to visit and learn about his country, and so becomes enmeshed in the early stages of a brutal civil conflict which will ultimately see the Salvadoran state turn paramilitary death squads against its own people, and leave nearly 90,000 dead or disappeared. Leonel knows that war is coming, and he wants Carolyn - as a writer - to bear witness to it.Told across peasant shanties, protest marches, the grand homes of retired generals and safe houses on the run, What You Have Heard Is True is the devastating true story of a young woman's choice to engage with horror in order to help others, of an unlikely friendship which will change thecourse of her life, and of a remarkable man's doomed effort to save his people from disaster.

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Full name What You Have Heard Is True
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2020
Number of pages 400
EAN 9780241405581
ISBN 0241405580
Libristo code 24142825
Publishers Penguin Books
Weight 296
Dimensions 196 x 128 x 35
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