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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)A Globe and Mail Best Book [2011] A Quill & Quire Book of the Year [2011] A National Post Best Book [2011] A BBC Radio Book of the Week [October 2011]One of the CBC’s 15 Memoirs by Canadian Women Worth Reading [2015]  Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 345813820

 

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"Something Fierce" is the memoir that won the CBC Canada Reads Contest for 2012. It is a well written and involving account of the growing up of a Chilean daughter, transferred to Vancouver after Allende's overthrow, who came to adulthood through years of working, first with her mother, then by herself, for the defeat of the illicit Pinochet regime that replaced democratic government in Chile.
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Something Fierce takes the reader inside war ridden Peru, dictatorship run Bolivia, post Malvinas Argentina, and Pinochet's Chile during the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful, and darkly comic, it is a rare account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter – Review. March 4, 2012 by Brent Hirose. In Carmen Aguirre’s striking memoir the story begins when she is just six years old. Her family fled from their native Chile to live in Vancouver as refugees; narrowly avoiding the violence of General Augusto Pinochet’s military coup.
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter Carmen Aguirre. Douglas & McIntyre (PGW, dist.), $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978 1 77100 036 9. Buy this book Aguirre’s riveting memoir chronicles ...
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
One minute, 11 year old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet's coup.
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SOMETHING FIERCE: MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY DAUGHTER Carmen Aguirre [Douglas & McIntyre] [This review is expanded from the winter issue of Shameless.] Probably every twelve year old child has received strict instructions from their mother; but not every twelve year old would remember a situation where confusing the given instructions meant the ...
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Something Fierce is Vancouver playwright and actor Carmen Aguirre's memoir of growing up in the resistance as the daughter of a revolutionary Chilean mother in the decade between 1979 and 1989, a...

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