El Pergamino de la Seduccion: Una Novela (Spanish Edition)
Praise for THE COUNTRY UNDER MY SKIN (:)&#8220;A poetic, penetrating and revelatory tale of love and war, literature and politics. . .lyrical, dramatic and incisive, Belli&#8217;s soulful self-portrait and paean to her beautiful, beleagured country is at once timely and timeless, tragic and life-affirming.&#8221; (The Chicago Tribune)&#8220;Love and revolution have rarely been so splendidly and provocatively intertwined than in this heretic memoir of a woman&#8217;s sensual and intellectual voyage of self-discovery in Nicaragua.&#8221; (Ariel Dorfman)&#8220;Gioconda Belli&#8217;s memoir reads better than a novel. It recounts her larger-than-life experiences as a revolutionary, lover, and mother with honesty, passion, intelligence and, above all, poetry. The Country Under My Skin is as much the story of Nicaragua as it is one extraordinary woman&#8217;s dreams.&#8221; (Cristina Garcia)&#8220;Unravels [the] contradictions. . .all too common among powerful women&#150;with characteristic candor and dignity. . .Often joyous, surprisingly fluid.&#8221; (Salon)&#8220;Engaging. . .When Belli speaks from the depths of her woman&#8217;s insight. . . her prose pierces the heart. . .A window to one woman&#8217;s extraordinary journey.&#8221; (San Antonio Express-News)&#8220;A surprisingly frank picture of the movement. . .Belli presents a complex picture, revealing the ego clashes and massive blunders as well as moments of incredible bravery under fire.&#8221; (Los Angeles Magazine)&#8220;Belli recalls with engaging candor the course of a life lived to the full. In its twist and turns, moments of danger followed by intense romantic encounters, Belli&#8217;s memoir can resemble exuberant historical fiction. . A luminously written, always insightful account of one woman&#8217;s encounter with personal and political liberation.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;A lush memoir.&#8230;both intensely personal and informatively political.&#8230;An honest, insider&#8217;s account of the very real debates surrounding this major revolution would be valuable in itself, but Belli offers more: a frank examination of her struggle for love.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;A tribute to beauty, valor, and justice. Belli&#8217;s giving and clarion book is also an antidote to fear and apathy, and a reminder that freedom is always a work in progress.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;Romantic and engaging.&#8221; (Philadelphia City Paper)Praise for SCROLL OF SEDUCTION (Praise for SCROLL OF SEDUCTION)&#8220;&#8230;rigorously imagined and sumptuously presented&#8230;&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;&#8230;A lush novel that draws in equal measure on history and human passion, The Scroll of Seduction bears a passing resemblance to Jane Eyre, Like Water for Chocolate and The Historian.&#8221; (Los Angeles Times)&#8220;Lush...Belli&#8217;s rich prose provides fascinating insight into Juana&#8217;s life...&#8221; (Tu Vida Magazine)&#8220;&#8230;A fascinating account&#8230; richly told...a feel similar to Tracy Chevalier&#8217;s Girl with a Pearl Earring.&#8221; (Library Journal)&#8220;Exceedingly clever and powerful, this passion-filled mystery of love and jealousy, of beauty and madness, unravels as the suspense builds to a page-turning frenzy that leaves us wanting to keep reading beyond the back cover.&#8221; (Mar&#xED;a Amparo Escand&#xF3;n, author of Esperanza&#8217;s Box of Saints and Gonz&#xE1;lez & Daughter Trucking Co.)&#8220;In Belli&#8217;s story-within-a-story, expertly translated by Lisa Dillman, a historian uses Juana&#8217;s saga to seduce a 16 year old orphan at a Madrid boarding school...the novel gallops along. A-&#8221; (Entertainment Weekly)&#8220;The Scroll of Seduction engages the reader on multiple levels&#8230;an intelligent work of fiction.&#8221; (Daily News)