Being Luis

Being Luis
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Publisher : Impress Books Limited
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780954758615
ISBN-13 : 0954758617
Rating : 4/5 (617 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Being Luis by : Luis Muñoz

Download or read book Being Luis written by Luis Muñoz and published by Impress Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis Muqoz is one of the few survivors of torture under Pinochet's military regime. His autobiography is a story of love, life, death and survival, recounting Chilean history from the 1960s to the present. It charts his magical, but at times harsh childhood, his undercover activity as a left-wing activist, his arrest and torture by the military regime and his eventual exile to England. John McCarthy CBE praised Being Luis saying, "This is a wonderful and important book; tragic, funny, pathetic and brave, all the very best and worst of human nature."


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