![]() ![]() In spite of the family’s money problems, she was kept by the nuns in their convent for a year, and attended school up through the first year of junior high. Malnutrition and handling the fungicides used on the plantations frequently caused the workers to grow ill.Īlthough Rigoberta’s parents could not read or write, Rigoberta was lucky enough to receive education when some Belgian nuns found her to be bright and promising. The intense heat of the coast frequently made the highland Indians sick. Many Indians, like Rigoberta’s family, had to spend half the year working on coastal plantations that typically exported coffee and cotton. ![]() Her father organized a peasant group, the United Peasant Committee (CUC), and worked to hold on to his land. ![]() Her mother and father were both leaders in her community. Rigoberta was born into a large peasant family. But her story can still be read as a description of the common experiences of many Indians who led lives of exploitation, deep discrimination and fear of Guatemala’s brutal military dictatorships. Some of the facts that Rigoberta shares about her life have been questioned. Rigoberta Menchú’s powerful autobiography begins with these simple words: “This is my testimony. I’d like to stress that it’s not only my life, it’s also the testimony of my people. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people.” ![]()
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Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie McGarry books are always an emotional ride with intense romance and strong family focus.įor me, this one was a tad slow in the beginning, but by midway. But sometimes the right person is the one you least expect, and the road you fear the most is the one that leads you home. What he doesn't count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down. ![]() So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it's his shot at his dream. And while Emilythe gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club's most respected memberis in town, he's gonna prove it to her. Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. Not the club, not her secret-keeping father and not Oz, a guy with suck-me-in blue eyes who can help her understand them both. But when a reluctant visit turns into an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: nothing is what it seems. Sure, she's curious about her biological fatherthe one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parentbut that doesn't mean she wants to be a part of his world. ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. An unforgettable new series from acclaimed author Katie McGarry about taking risks, opening your heart and ending up in a place you never imagined possible ![]() ![]() ![]() The strangled screams of everyone I’d left behind echoed through the passes, reverberating through my skull. But with the jagged peaks of the Peshkalor Mountains shading my back, I might as well have been a hundred miles away. Our homeland, pillaged and burning and crawling with invaders, lay less than a mile north of here. Not because of the fact that a city like this, gray and humble though it looked from here, no longer existed in Seravesh. Tears prickled my eyes and I blinked them away, telling myself it was the bite of the winter wind making them water. His silence was like a great intake of breath. “What do you see?” I murmured, my voice too low for the soldiers behind us to hear. General Arkady edged his horse closer to mine, and an expression I couldn’t quite name creased the maplike wrinkles of his face. The legion at my back could take it in an afternoon, but I hadn’t come to start a war. The smallest holding in the Free State of Idun, it had only a few hundred inhabitants crowded about a crumbling seaside castle. From my hilltop perch, the walled city of Eshkaroth wasn’t much to look at. ![]() I pulled the cloak closer about my shoulders, ignoring the bead of sweat dripping down my spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mortimer (let us note for the record that he is officially Sir John, and richly deserves the honor, but this column's surly populism discourages the use of honorifics, even for writers and ex-Beatles) is 81 now and has written more than a dozen Rumpole novels and short-story collections, as well as many other novels, plays and memoirs. For several decades, while George Smiley was trying to win the Cold War, Rumpole has been trying to make sense of the English legal system, matrimony and, most recently, old age, which he views as essentially comic - at a certain point, God decrees that you can no longer put your socks on. ![]() ![]() Today, we have le Carre's slightly older, more lighthearted contemporary, John Mortimer, presenting his much-beloved barrister, Horace Rumpole, as a young man. Two weeks ago we looked at John le Carre's early portrait of his master spy, George Smiley. ![]() |