 Book details:January 2012
ISBN 978-1-77100-036-9
Paperback 6" x 9" 288 pages Biography & Autobiography / Political $21.00 CAD Awards
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Douglas & McIntyreSomething FierceMemoirs of a Revolutionary DaughterWinner of Canada Reads 2012: True Stories! Read more here. Longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Ficiton! "[Carmen Aguirre's] story is the personal experience of a brave young woman evolving her understanding of herself and her place in the world, told with passion, personal insight, rich detail and humour... Something Fierce is raw, courageously honest and funny; an insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul." —The Globe and Mail Read more fantastic reviews for Something Fierce here. A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account 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. Ebook available at the following retailers: |
About the Author Carmen AguirreCarmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has written and co-written twenty plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Trigger and The Refugee ... more >>Related Books Letters to My Daughters Something FierceNews & Events for Something Fierce
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