The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War-Fast Shipping

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“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

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully freeand original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.

Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: shelteredfrom the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educatedabroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growingdissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness of the social inequitiesin Nicaragua, led her to join the Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hiddenorganization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest,and often most dangerous, levels.

Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s accountof the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinarycircumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personaland political lives: about her family, her children, the men in her life; about herpoetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and the life she chose forherself; 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.