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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

Carolyn Forche is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be – a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer – but nobody seems to know for certain.Captivated for reasons she doesn`t fully understand, she accepts his invitation to visit and learn about his country, and becomes enmeshed in the early stages of a civil war which will see a state turn death squads on its own people and over 100,000 dead.Told across peasant shanties, retired generals` grand homes, protest marches and safe houses on the run, this is the powerful true story of a woman`s radical act of empathy and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who will change the course of her life.

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