![]() ![]() At age eleven, Carmen's life is forever changed by the announcement that the family is to suddenly pack up and move to La Paz, Bolivia. ![]() Something Fierce: Memoirs of A Revolutionary Daughter traces Carmen's journey from childhood. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting. Winner of Canada Reads 2012 and Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Writing with passion and deep personal insight, Aguirre captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the movement with the desires of her youth. Something Fierce covers the eventful decade of 1979 to 1989 and takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet’s Chile in the eventful decade between 19. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. She was only eleven-years-old when her mother and stepfather joined the resistance movement and returned to South America, taking Carmen and her sister went with them. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, about her experiences in the Chilean resistance, was published in 2011. ![]() Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2012 and Globe 100 Best Book of the year in 2011!Ĭarmen Aguirre was six-year-old when she and her family fled to Canada following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. ![]()
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