Something fierce, memoirs of a revolutionary daughter, Carmen Aguirre
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Something fierce, memoirs of a revolutionary daughter, Carmen Aguirre
Language
eng
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autobiography
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non fiction
Main title
Something fierce
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773987907
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Carmen Aguirre
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memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
Summary
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under the repressive new regime. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for a life in exile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister<U+2019>s double lives began. At 18, Carmen herself joined the resistance, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia, and euphoria. Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina, and Pinochet's Chile during the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful, and darkly comic, it is a rare account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting
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adult
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