![]() Something Fierce takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina, and Pinochet's Chile during the eventful decade between 19.ĭramatic, suspenseful, and darkly comic, it is a rare account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting. At 18, Carmen herself joined the resistance, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia, and euphoria. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled the country with their parents for a life in exile.įive years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister’s double lives began. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed under the repressive new regime. On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from office. ![]() Nominated for the Charles Taylor prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction ![]()
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