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Chile in my heart

By Kate Clark

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Chile in my heart

By Kate Clark

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A memoir of love and revolution. A young Englishwoman falls in love with a Chilean man, leaves everything and goes to live in Chile. It is an unknown country, she doesn't speak the language, and what's more, she suddenly finds herself in the midst of monumental changes after the election of a Socialist President - Dr Salvador Allende. This is Kate Clark's personal story of her love affair with Chile and its people. Living and working as a lecturer in English and Phonetics at the University of Chile in a provincial city, Chillán, it is her story of those turbulent years of the Popular Unity Government, elected in September 1970 and brought down by a savage coup d'état in September 1973. What was the Government of Salvador Allende trying to achieve? What were the difficulties and obstacles? Kate Clark describes the events of those exciting years from her viewpoint as a young Englishwoman living in Chile and attempts to answer some of the most fundamental questions. This is a rare insight into the period leading up to Allende's election and the three tumultuous years of his presidency facing growing opposition. She transmits the horror and fear caused by the bloody September 11th coup in 1973 and Allende's tragic death that day in the Moneda Palace. And the reader feels her pain during the heartbreaking months following the coup when her beloved husband was imprisoned on Quiriquina Island.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2013-08-30
Publication Date:
2013-08-30
Publisher:
Bannister Publications Ltd
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1909813028
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