The blue line / Ingrid Betancourt.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594206580
- Physical Description: 359 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Translated by Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, in collaboration with Rebekah Wilson" --Title page verso. "Originally published in French as La Ligne Bleue by Editions Gallimard, Paris" [2014] --Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974 > Fiction. Organización Montoneros (Argentina) > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Visionaries > Fiction. |
Genre: | Political fiction. Bildungsromans. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Gibsons Public Library | FIC BETA (Text) | 30886001014519 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a story set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, Julia, a young woman who has inherited her grandmother's gift of visions, must intervene to prevent horrific events, or lose her gift. - Baker & Taylor
Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War, a dramatic novel follows Julia, who, inheriting her grandmother's giftâor curseâof visions, must intervene to prevent horrific events or lose her gifts. - Baker & Taylor
"From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate. Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world's most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End, draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Buenos Aires, the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift, precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do so--otherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Peron, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. A tale of extraordinary women, The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving. "-- - Penguin Putnam
From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate
Set against the backdrop of Argentinaâs Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the worldâs most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End, draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos.ÂBuenos Aires, the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift, precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do soâotherwise she will lose her gift.Â
At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Perón, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. . . .
In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving.Â