A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people” Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment.
- Format
- 320 pages, Paperback
- First published
- 2010
- Publishers
- Verso Books
About Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish pronunciation: [riɣoˈβerta menˈtʃu], born 9 January 1959) is an indigenous Guatemalan woman, of the K'iche' ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. She received the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. She is the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and the author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders.Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
I simply can't accept Menchu narrated this in one week to the anthropologist/writer, as is. The original tapes should be made available.
Required reading for anybody who wants to understand life in Guatemala in the past and today. Gripping.
This is a powerful an extremely interesting text about an indigenous woman from Guatemala. It documents her early life, the culture of her community, the intense hardships they endured and the political repressions which eventually brought them to wage a political struggle that utilized both violent and nonviolent resistance.
As has been described in other one-star reviews, this fiction is not a true account or documentary, as it purports to be-and thus, yet another example of the Left creating a narrative to suit its illogical and tendentious world view. (See David Stoll's Rigoberta Menchu for the definitive refutation.
Moving account that I am about to re-read because I enjoyed it the first time.
Excellent transaction and product!.
Excellent book. Received it promptly and it was well worth it.
Never even got ot use this book for class. But it came in perfect conditionand ont ime.
No matter what side you take in the controversy, this is a must-read book. The issues it raises are relevant to many current events.
This book, an angry diatribe against European landowners who terrorize Guatemalen peasants, is fabricated out of whole cloth. Her father was an avarage landowning farmer whose only disputes over land were with his relatives.
I read this book in grad school. There is so much to be considered about the information presented in this text.
Wonderful book about the struggle of the Mayan people in Guatemala in the 1980's. Amazing that over 200,000 Indians were killed by the government and the military with the support of the US government.
As I was shopping one day I spotted an ink on cardboard drawing that caught my eye. The shop owner would not sell but told me the story of Rigoberta.
