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Adiós muchachos : a memoir of the Sandinista Revolution / Sergio Ramírez ; translated by Stacey Alba D. Skar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramírez, Sergio, 1942-
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Standardized Title:
- Adiós muchachos. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ramírez, Sergio, 1942-.
- Ramírez, Sergio.
- Nicaragua--History--1979-1990.
- Nicaragua.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sergio Ramírez, Vice President of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990, offers his memoir of the turbulent years that toppled the Samoza dictatorship in 1979 and the triumphs and shortcomings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that was charged with national reconstruction and social transformation in a country besieged by internal conflicts and foreign aggression.
- Contents:
- Partial confession
- Saintly living
- The age of innocence
- The swan over the burning coals
- The age of malice
- Monkey on a leash
- Manifest destiny
- The likely number thirteen
- Heaven on earth
- The year of the pig
- Rivers of milk and honey
- The palace at last!
- Saturn's jaws.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613292292
- 9781283292290
- 1283292297
- 9780822394594
- 0822394596
- OCLC:
- 758864677
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