Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
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“Rigoberta Menchú is a young g Guatemalan peasant woman, already famous in her country as a national leader, whose life vividly reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Faced with gross injustice and exploitation, she decided at an early age to learn Spanish and turned to catechist activity as an expression of social revolt as wall as deep religious belief. After the coming to power of the Lucas Garcia regime in 1978, her brother, father and mother were all killed in separate incidents of savagery on the part of the army…” Nobel peace prize winner.
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I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
ISBN: 0860917886
Publisher Description
A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people” (The ...
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