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Forché Carolyn.
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Forché, Carolyn.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- El Salvador -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Government, Resistance to -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century.
El Salvador -- History -- 1944-1979.
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Forché Carolyn.
Forché, Carolyn.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- El Salvador -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Government, Resistance to -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century.
El Salvador -- History -- 1944-1979.
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What you have heard is true : a memoir of witness and resistance / Carolyn Forché.
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Forché Carolyn.
Penguin Press, 2019.
Call #:
972
.84052
F698w
Subjects
Forché, Carolyn.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- El Salvador -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Government, Resistance to -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century.
El Salvador -- History -- 1944-1979.
ISBN:
9780525560371 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Memoir of witness and resistance
Description:
390 p. : ill., facsimile, photographs ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"Carolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She's heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, but according to her, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn't fully understand, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. Together they meet with high-ranking military officers, impoverished farm workers, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her, but also to learn for himself just how close the country is to war. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked, he is determined to save his country, and Forché is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads and sheltering in safe houses, the two forge a rich friendship, as she attempts to make sense of what she's experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering."--From publisher.
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