My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
Silvana Paternostro, . . Holt, $25 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7605-9
In this disjointed memoir, Paternostro describes her return to war-torn Colombia, which she left in the 1970s as a teenager. A member of a wealthy, landholding family, Paternostro attended American schools and universities and made a career in the U.S. as a journalist, while giving little thought to the country she left behind. Yet the crises of cocaine and civil war draw her professional attention and an assignment from the
Reviewed on: 07/23/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 336 pages - 978-1-4668-5633-2
Paperback - 336 pages - 978-0-8050-8860-1