El país bajo mi piel

Synopsis of El país bajo mi piel

«El país bajo mi piel» is a memoir of love and war by Gioconda Belli, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback, with 430 pages, in Spanish.

Gioconda Belli recalls her life as a woman, mother, and Nicaraguan revolutionary: from childhood in Managua to poetry and clandestine militancy against the Somoza dictatorship, with exiles and persecutions. She interweaves her amorous and sexual awakening with the history of her country and her later life as a writer in California.

For readers of memoirs and Central American literature interested in the political history of Latin America and the role of women in the Sandinista revolution.