Life in Between
As Told by a Nicaraguan Author
Description:... This book comprises by 3 short stories. The first and the third, take place in Central America, in Nicaragua. The second happens in the United States. The third story is the culmination of first two. It takes place during the government by the Nicaraguan revolutionary Sandinista after removing from power the Somoza family.
In the first story, the life of 300 years before is confronted with a critical moment in the life of an ordinary but vulnerable man living in the present
The second story lives in the present but memories connect it with a forgotten past in the life of an émigré trying to make his living in the United States.
The third story is woven around the disappearance of the main character's brother, an American citizen who returns to Nicaragua to check on his despised Sandinista revolutionaries (communists according to his prejudiced criteria). Many characters appear through the story. Nationals, Americans, Russian, Libyans, and specially Cubans. The other end of the Iron Wall of the cold war, is shown making their presence available in what would be a first step to achieve solid ground in the American continent.
The underground thought through the stories, is that the past, the social structures fabricated in the past, make the ground for those in the present days. The Sandinista revolution was characterized by a desire for justice for the common man. It revolted against the Somoza regime and its accommodating social elite to achieve what they predicated. In reality it was a revolt against existing power to achieve power themselves.
This has been the stigma recurring from generation to generation in the Latin American History ever since the Spaniards elitist society sunk the Indian and the Mestizos to the bottom and made them the supporting class of such a system.
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