NON-FICTION Biography and Auto-Biography...Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country...
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NON-FICTION Read by Carmen Aguirre Category: Biography & Memoir Running Time: 9 hrs 36 min Territory: World On Sale Date: 2012-07-01 Audio CD: 978-1-926910-94-9 MP3 CD: 978-1-926910-96-3 Carmen Aguirre was taken, aged 11, from her comfortable Canadian exile, by her mother, to Chile, then Bolivia, Peru, Argenna, spending the next six years in the safe houses her mother and stepfather ran. At 18, she joined the guerrilla resistance in Pinochet’s Chile. Today she again lives in Canada, where she is a celebrated playwright and actress – she was in Quinceanera, a Sundance winner. This is her first book. Biography and Auto-Biography SOMETHING FIERCE MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTER - Winner Canada Reads 2012 - Chosen as Globe 100 Best Book of the Year - Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction - Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize - National Media Attention including several reviews and interviews A gripping, darkly comic memoir of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile. On September 11, 1973, a violent coup removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. ousands were arrested, tortured and killed under General Augusto Pinochet’s repressive new regime. Soon aſter the coup, six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for Canada and a life in exile. In 1978, the Chilean resistance issued a call for exiled activists to return to Latin America. Most women sent their children to live with relatives or with supporters in Cuba, but Carmen’s mother kept her precious girls with her. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls’ own double lives began. At eighteen, Carmen herself joined the resistance. With conventional day jobs as a cover, she and her new husband moved to Argentina to begin a dangerous new life of their own. is dramatic, darkly funny narrative, which covers the eventful decade from 1979 to 1989, takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet’s Chile. Writing with passion and deep personal insight, Aguirre captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the movement with the desires of her youth and her budding sexuality. Something Fierce is a gripping story of love, war and resistance and a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life. KEY SELLING POINTS / MARKETING PRAISE FOR SOMETHING FIERCE “Aguirre’s riveting memoir chronicles her childhood as the daughter of Chilean resistance fighters...[her] writing is splendid; she combines black humor and a sharp intellect and tells her powerful story in grand style.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, JUN 11, 2012 “Aguirre has craſted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion, and dollops of sardonic humour.” QUILL & QUIRE, DEC 1, 2011 “[Carmen Aguirre’s] life has been anything but regular, and she seamlessly and eloquently tells her early life story in her first book.” RABBLE.CA, SEP 8, 2011 Contact Us: [email protected] 112 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 1H3
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Read by Carmen AguirreCategory: Biography & MemoirRunning Time: 9 hrs 36 minTerritory: WorldOn Sale Date: 2012-07-01Audio CD: 978-1-926910-94-9MP3 CD: 978-1-926910-96-3
Carmen Aguirre was taken, aged 11, from her comfortable Canadian exile, by her mother, to Chile, then Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, spending the next six years in the safe houses her mother and stepfather ran. At 18, she joined the guerrilla resistance in Pinochet’s Chile. Today she again lives in Canada, where she is a celebrated playwright and actress – she was in Quinceanera, a Sundance winner. This is her first book.
Biography and Auto-Biography
SOMETHING FIERCEMEMOIRS OF A
REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTER
- Winner Canada Reads 2012- Chosen as Globe 100 Best Book of the Year- Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction- Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize- National Media Attention including several reviews and interviews
A gripping, darkly comic memoir of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile.
On September 11, 1973, a violent coup removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under General Augusto Pinochet’s repressive new regime. Soon after the coup, six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for Canada and a life in exile.
In 1978, the Chilean resistance issued a call for exiled activists to return to Latin America. Most women sent their children to live with relatives or with supporters in Cuba, but Carmen’s mother kept her precious girls with her. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls’ own double lives began. At eighteen, Carmen herself joined the resistance. With conventional day jobs as a cover, she and her new husband moved to Argentina to begin a dangerous new life of their own.
This dramatic, darkly funny narrative, which covers the eventful decade from 1979 to 1989, takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet’s Chile. Writing with passion and deep personal insight, Aguirre captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the movement with the desires of her youth and her budding sexuality. Something Fierce is a gripping story of love, war and resistance and a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life.
KEY SELLING POINTS / MARKETING
PRAISE FOR SOMETHING FIERCE“Aguirre’s riveting memoir chronicles her childhood as the daughter of Chilean resistance fighters...[her] writing is splendid; she combines black humor and a sharp intellect and tells her powerful story in grand style.”PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, JUN 11, 2012
“Aguirre has crafted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion, and dollops of sardonic humour.”QUILL & QUIRE, DEC 1, 2011
“[Carmen Aguirre’s] life has been anything but regular, and she seamlessly and eloquently tells her early life story in her first book.”RABBLE.CA, SEP 8, 2011
Contact Us:
112 Royal Avenue
New Westminster, BC
V3L 1H3
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