Carmen Aguirre has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is Something Fierce.
Something Fierce
Summary
Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2012 and Globe 100 Best Book of the year in 2011! Carmen Aguirre was six-year-old when she and her family fled to Canada following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. She was only eleven-years-old when her mother and stepfather joined the resistance movement and returned to South America, taking Carmen and her sister went with them. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria. Something Fierce covers the eventful decade of 1979 to 1989 and takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet’s Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Writing with passion and deep personal insight, Aguirre captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the movement with the desires of her youth. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.
©2011 Carmen Aguirre (P)2012 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
Summary
A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's best-selling first memoir, Something Fierce. A powerful, heartfelt, and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and developing the strength to confront a childhood trauma. Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the fullest. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At 18 she was a revolutionary dissident. In her early 20s she fought to find her voice as an actor and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her - Housekeeper, Hotel Maid, Mexican Hooker #1. Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actor, and then a mother, but alongside her many multifaceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape: that of the 13-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life. Fierce, funny, and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love. From the end of the Chilean revolutionary dream to life among the Chicano theater scene of Los Angeles, from the child who was made the victim of a terrible crime to the artist who found the courage to confront her assailant, Aguirre tells a story of strength and survival that will leave you speechless.
©2016 Carmen Aguirre (P)2017 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Poseidons pil
Summary
Usa:s försvarsdepartement ska just godkänna tillverkningen av världens mest avancerade ubåt när en viktig del av prototypen stjäls och mannen som designat den hittas död. Samtidigt har ett stort antal fartyg börjat försvinna ute på världshaven, oftast utan att bli återfunna, och om de hittats har besättningen påträffats nerbränd till aska. Vad är det som händer? Kan dessa händelser ha någon- ting att göra med den italienska ubåt som försvann 1943? Dirk Pitt, chef för NUMA, och hans team får uppgiften att försöka bringa klarhet i mysteriet något som blir deras farligaste uppdrag någonsin.
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