| Availibility: | Available |
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| Creator: | Claribel Alegria |
| Area of focus: | History |
| Content Warning Types: | Unknown |
| Format of resource: | Paperback book |
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| Published Year: | 1983 |
| ISBN: | 0704340283 (on goodreads) and on amazon |
Description:
This is the triumphant story of the life and death of Commander Eugenia of the Salvadorean guerilla forces, as seen through the eyes of her comrades, and told by one of El Salvador’s foremost writers.
Drawn from interviews with her family and those who fought beside her, the book reconstructs Eugenia’s youth, her growing involvement in the resistance movement. and brings the war of liberation vividly to life. Together the accounts mark the progress of Eugenia, ‘a comrade always in the process of development’ in all aspects of her life, as political leader, soldier, revolutionary, proletarian, bother and wife.
Drawn from interviews with her family and those who fought beside her, the book reconstructs Eugenia’s youth, her growing involvement in the resistance movement. and brings the war of liberation vividly to life. Together the accounts mark the progress of Eugenia, ‘a comrade always in the process of development’ in all aspects of her life, as political leader, soldier, revolutionary, proletarian, bother and wife.