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Even Silence Has an End
By INGRID BETANCOURT
RRP: $39.99, T PB, Virago
One of the biggest and most powerful memoirs to be published in 2010.
Ingrid Betancourt’s astonishing story captured the world’s imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat widespread corruption and a climate of fear in Colombia; in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organisation that has been in conflict with the government for decades. She was held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a half years, constantly on the move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was at last freed and reunited with her two children and relatives in 2008.
In this important and moving book, Ingrid Bentancourt tells in her own words the extraordinary drama of her capture and eventual rescue and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically. As she confronts the horror of what she went through, her story also goes beyond the specifics of her own confinement to offer an intensely intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate reflection on what it means to be human.
About the Author
Ingrid Betancourt was born in 1961 in Colombia. After attending private school in France, a boarding school in England as well as the Liceo Francés in Bogotá, Ingrid attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. After graduating, Ingrid married fellow student Fabrice Delloye in 1983, and they had two children, Mélanie and LorenzoIn the mid 1990s, Betancourt and Delloye divorced, and she married Colombian advertising executive, Juan Carlos Lecompte in 1997.
Ingrid Betancourt has dual Colombian and French nationality and is a politician, a former senator and Colombian presidential candidate, an anti-corruption activist and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. She has received numerous awards and honours, including France’s Légion d’honneur. Her children Melanie and Lorenzo moved to New Zealand to live with their father due to death threats stemming from her political activities.
Even Silence Has an End will be published on 21 September 2010 around the world. This title is under strict embargo until publication.
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