Cautiva: Testimonio de un Secuestro = Captive = Captive

Clara Rojas fue secuestrada en el 2002 por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) junto a la ex-candidata presidencial ngrid Betancourt y liberada en el 2008 luego de casi seis a os de cautiverio. En su libro Cautiva, Clara cuenta por primera vez la historia de su secuestro, el milagroso nacimiento de su hijo Emmanuel en medio de la selva, el sufrimiento inmenso por haber sido separada de su hijo cuando ste apenas ten a ocho meses de vida, y finalmente el emocionante reencuentro con l tres a os despu s.

En este desgarrador relato, Clara revela en detalle el dolor de dar a luz en medio de la selva en manos de un enfermero que antes s lo hab a atendido a animales, el cansancio de largas caminatas de hasta ocho horas a trav s de la selva, el miedo de no saber si terminar a viva al final del d a, y su amistad con ngrid Betancourt, que no sobrevivi a la prueba del secuestro.

sta es tambi n una historia de fe que revela que Clara nunca perdi la esperanza de volver a ver a su hijo y que la ilusi n de volverlo a ver fue lo nico que la motiv a seguir luchando

Author: Clara Rojas
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 10/06/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.78w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781439159804
Language: Spanish


Review Citation(s):
Criticas 10/01/2009 pg. 1
Library Journal Annex 10/09/2009

About the Author
Rojas, Clara: - Clara Rojas is a lawyer and was the campaign director of Ingrid Betancourt's presidential campaign when they were kidnapped by the FARC in 2002. She gave birth to her son Emmanuel during her captivity but he was taken from her when he was only eight months old. After six years of captivity she was finally liberated. Clara and her son currently live in Bogotá, Colombia.

Translator:

Adriana V. López is the founding editor of Críticas, Publishers Weekly's sister magazine devoted to the Spanish-language publishing world. She is the co-editor of Barcelona Noir, a short story collection for Akashic Books, as well as the editor of Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles and Other Quinceañera Stories (HarperCollins, 2007). Lopez's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications and book anthologies. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Juicy Mangoes (Simon & Schuster, 2007), Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting (HarperCollins, 2004), and Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). López is a member of PEN America and currently divides her time between New York and Madrid.