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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 972.8100497 EAN: 9780860917885 ISBN: 0860917886 Label: Verso Manufacturer: Verso Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 252 Publication Date: 1984-06 Publisher: Verso Studio: Verso Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Why hasn't this damned book just gone away?I was wandering through the stacks of textbooks being read by students at an expensive, west-coast university recently and about passed out when I saw that this obscene waste of trees is STILL required reading. It says volumes about the totally intellectually debased education young people are getting and that their parents are taking out second mortgages to pay for. And then these same ignorant young adults go out and vote in droves for "change." Well, this is where that ... Read More Rating:  - Redundant Rambling FictionIt is common knowledge that this book is really a pile of lies. It isn't much of an autobiography and leaves the reader wondering which, if any, parts of it to really consider seriously. It is truly painful to read due to the unending redundant rambling nature of Menchu's storytelling. I cannot believe that this garbage is still being assigned as required reading. Worthless. Rating:  - I,Roberta MenchúWe give I, Rigoberta Menchú four stars because it was a good book but at the same time it was complicated to understand. For instead, it was a good book because she explains her life very well with details. Rigoberta also never gave up she kept going no matter as hard situation she'll face in her life. This book is complicated because Rigoberta just keeps repeating her self, is like we want to know more, something different. What we learn from this book, if we really truly want something we should ... Read More Rating:  - Amazing book of survivalI read this book years ago and re-read it again recently. It is still one of my favorite books. Rigoberta Menchu suffered unbelievable atrocities and incredible losses and still lived to tell her courageous story through an interpreter. I think the book is phenomenal and I recommend it to anyone with a heart. It helps explain a lot about the Guatamalen people and their strife. It also is a timely book since the illegal immigration debate rages on in this country on a daily basis. It paints a vivid ... Read More Rating: - MemorableI read this book shortly before visiting Guatemala, and I have to say it made my travel experience alot richer. I felt more sensitized to the currents of racism and political struggle still present in the country, as well as to the pain of a people recovering from a horror in the not so distant past. Nearly every Guatemalan that I met had some powerful story of the genocide, and this book gave me a good background on the facts and politics behind the peasant struggle. Though it has been ... Read More 
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