Blogs in December 2020

The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War 10th December 2020

Lives don’t get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli. She may have been educated by nuns and dazzled all as a well-heeled society girl, but Gioconda lifted her “guilt of privilege”...

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The Ladies of Managua 29th June 2015

When Maria returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather’s funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother’s past. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother inaction, once a storied revolutionary,...

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The Good Adventurers 24th March 2014

The story of Anne Harrison and her cousin Evelyn Harrison Gutiérrez, both born and raised in Massachusetts, unfolds in 1991 in Nicaragua, a country emerging from violent internal conflict and an economic embargo, scarred psychologically, physically, and economically. Their...

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Pearl Lagoon 24th March 2014

On the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in 1926, U.S. expatriates manage fruit plantations, timber companies, and gold mines. When a stunning local woman named Dorette Fox entangles herself with two Americans, the desultory love triangle combined with an escalating...

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The Jaguar Smile 24th March 2014

In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went...

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