Fire from the mountain : the making of a Sandinista / by Omar Cabezas ; foreword by Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Kathleen Weaver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Crown Publishers, Inc., c1985.Edition: 1st editionDescription: xiii, 233 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0517558009
Uniform titles:
  • Montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verde. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.85/083/0924 19
LOC classification:
  • F 1527 .C2813 1985
Online resources:
Contents:
Holy week -- Strength and numbers -- Through university doors -- Fire in the barrios -- Leaving for the mountain -- Fire in the rain -- Loneliness at the mountain's heart -- Students and teachers -- A soldier's Christmas -- The mountain mourns a sea -- Reunion and departure -- Return to the past -- Doctors and nurses -- Lessons from the mountain -- Sanctuary -- Reasons for living -- Legacy of a Sandinista.
Summary: A current member of the Sandinista government recalls his personal experience as a guerrilla fighter.Summary: "Fire from the Mountain, by Omar Cabezas, tells of the early days of what he would call his country's struggle for independence. Cabezas re-creates the atmosphere of the time - the years of the revolution up until 1975 - but more important, he gives the reader a truly personal recollection that focuses on the process of becoming a revolutionary, an effective guerrilla fighter. It tells what it meant to him, what it did to him, how it surprised and at times confused him,. and how it felt." -- book jacket
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Translation of: La montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verde.

Tables of contents not presented in list, but the chapters are titled within the text.

Holy week -- Strength and numbers -- Through university doors -- Fire in the barrios -- Leaving for the mountain -- Fire in the rain -- Loneliness at the mountain's heart -- Students and teachers -- A soldier's Christmas -- The mountain mourns a sea -- Reunion and departure -- Return to the past -- Doctors and nurses -- Lessons from the mountain -- Sanctuary -- Reasons for living -- Legacy of a Sandinista.

A current member of the Sandinista government recalls his personal experience as a guerrilla fighter.

"Fire from the Mountain, by Omar Cabezas, tells of the early days of what he would call his country's struggle for independence. Cabezas re-creates the atmosphere of the time - the years of the revolution up until 1975 - but more important, he gives the reader a truly personal recollection that focuses on the process of becoming a revolutionary, an effective guerrilla fighter. It tells what it meant to him, what it did to him, how it surprised and at times confused him,. and how it felt." -- book jacket

Originally written in Spanish.

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