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Title: What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness & Resistance
Author: FORCHE CAROLYN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/03/2020
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
Carolyn Forche is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be – a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer – but nobody seems to know for certain.
Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand, she accepts his invitation to visit and learn about his country, and becomes enmeshed in the early stages of a civil war which will see a state turn death squads on its own people and over 100,000 dead.
Told across peasant shanties, retired generals’ grand homes, protest marches and safe houses on the run, this is the powerful true story of a woman’s radical act of empathy and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who will change the course of her life.
ISBN: 9780241405581
Pages: 400