Gioconda Belli, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero. Knopf $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-40370-5
Belli's upper-class Nicaraguan family was unsympathetic to the Somoza dictatorship, but would have been shocked to learn that their 20-something daughter was joining the underground Sandinistas even as she worked her bourgeois day job at a...
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Gioconda Belli, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Rayo $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-083312-1
How crazy was Juana La Loca, the Spanish queen who allegedly would not stop kissing her husband, Philippe the Handsome, even after he died? A Madrid professor enlists the help of a student and a silk dress to find out in the latest from Nicaraguan...
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Gioconda Belli, Author, Kathleen N. March, Translator Curbstone Press $22.95 (412p) ISBN 978-1-880684-17-7
The politics of Latin American revolution offer a worthy subject here, but Nicaraguan-born poet Belli seldom rises to the challenge. Lavinia, an independent young woman of privileged background, takes a job as an architect as a means of supporting...
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Gioconda Belli, Author, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator . Harper $23.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-06-167364-1
Belli's poetry and politics meld in this lyrical retelling of Adam and Eve. Here, the Serpent tempts Eve with freedom equal to that of Elokim, the God who created them, and history “would begin if she ate of the fruit.” But with the
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