{"product_id":"the-country-under-my-skin","title":"The Country Under My Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665346117789,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/countryundermyskin.jpg?v=1771616336","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/the-country-under-my-skin","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}