Rigoberta Menchú
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Menchu's retelling of the stories her grandparents and parents told presents a rich, humorous and engaging picture of the past. Stories like her grandfather swepting her grandmother off her feet, picking blackberries and secretly eating them with chunks of brown sugar, playing with her siblings in the river and her mother's knowledge of the healing powers of the forest plants.
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In this, the second instalment of her autobiography, the celebrated Guatemalan Indian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner picks up the story where her first volume, I, Rigoberta Menohu, ended. In 1981 Rigoberta fled from Guatemala, deeply traumatised by the violence inflicted on her community including the murders of her brother, father and mother. Exiled in Mexico she began building a support movement with the Indians living as outlaws in Guatemala's...