EAN: 9780241405581

WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE - CAROLYN FORCHÉ KA...

'Astonishing  powerful  so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Riveting . .
. intricate and surprising' - The New York Times'Reading it will change you  perhaps forever' -
San Francisco ChronicleAn electrifying memoir set in the Salvadoran Civil War:the true story of
a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fireCarolyn Forché  an American poet 
is 27 when a mysterious stranger called Leonel appears on her doorstep  having driven direct
from El Salvador. Her friend has heard rumours about who he might be - a communist  a CIA
operative  a sharpshooter  a motorcycle racer  a revolutionary  a small coffee farmer - but
nobody seems to know for certain. Captivated for reasons she doesn't fully understand  she
accepts his invitation to visit and learn about his country  and so becomes enmeshed in the
early stages of a brutal civil conflict which will ultimately see the Salvadoran state turn
paramilitary death squads against its own people  and leave nearly 90 000 dead or disappeared.
Leonel knows that war is coming  and he wants Carolyn - as a writer - to bear witness to
it.Told across peasant shanties  protest marches  the grand homes of retired generals and safe
houses on the run  What You Have Heard Is True is the devastating true story of a young woman's
choice to engage with horror in order to help others  of an unlikely friendship which will
change thecourse of her life  and of a remarkable man's doomed effort to save his people from
disaster.

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