My Colombian War A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind

Name: My Colombian War A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
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ISBN: 9780805076059

ISBN-10: 0805076050

ISBN-13: 9780805076059

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Silvana Paternostro

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A timely, evocative account of a reporter's reckoning with her homeland's volatile past Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young girl: friendships and parties, school and family. But soon it became apparent that life in Colombia would not go on as usual. Strange planes appeared overhead, the harbingers of the marijuana drug trade that would explode into cocaine wars over the next decade, and soon after, a disputed election would lead to demonstrations and kidnappings targeting the affluent landed elite--including Paternostro's family. A revolution was brewing, and the social inequalities reflected in…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 11/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



The Maps






Miami International Airport, May 2002



Shelter Island, June 1999



Barranquilla, August 2001



Seeing You Again



My Birthmark



The Rebel Years



Making Plans as a Journalist



Researching My Story



Tricky, Tricky



Asking the Tough Questions



Kidnapping, Inc.



Running in Riomar



The Best in All the Land



High Times in Barranquilla



Need Help from Allegra






Who Is She?



My Grandmother Explains Kidnappings



Memory Threads of El Carmen



Ma Cris and Her Cousin Describe a World of Peace



Guillermo's Terrace



Juana's Smell



Agustin Explains the Rules



Seeing You Again, September 10, 2001



Body Language






How Did I End Up Here?, March 2002



Meeting the Rebels



Wrong Music



Can't Stay Away, Miami, May 2003



Needing to Report Again



Our Colombian War


Epilogue


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index