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1	Uncertain Travelers more books like this by Marjorie Agosin Over a three-year period, award-winning Chilean poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin interviewed nine Jewish women immigrants who arrived in the US from Europe and Latin America between 1939 and the 1970s. Some came as children, others as adults; some were well-off, others refugees. These conversations reveal diverse experiences of exile ... see all copies from £8.47! new only from £8.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman (Translator) Human-rights activist Agosin explores divergent veins of cultural identity in the face of brutality and alienation in a rhapsodic and provocative memoir. see all copies from £2.05! new only from £8.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Alphabet in My Hands: A Writing Life more books like this by Marjorie Agosin This text is a journey of discovery that is as much internal reflection as an exodus across continents and decades. It recounts the events that forced the Agosin family to emigrate to America, and the author addresses her residence in New England and the role of writing and literature in her life. see all copies from £6.35! new only from £20.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Isabel Allende (Editor) This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility of reclaiming power through language. ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £12.71!
5	Gabriela Mistral: A Reader more books like this by Gabriela Mistral, Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Isabelle Allende (Editor) Gabriela Mistral's name evokes a constellation of contradictory images: a rural schoolteacher and first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize, a poet who sang to children but never had any of her own, a provincialist and a universal traveller. All these references to her mythic legacy contain some truth and form part of the legacy of ... see all copies from £7.05! new only from £9.88! \| first editions
6	The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: The Story of Renee Epelbaum, 1976-1985 more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Janice Molloy (Translator) A moving account of Renee Epelbaum'slife and the loss of her three children under the Argentinian military dictatorship see all copies from £5.59! new only from £15.42!
7	A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights: An International Literary Anthology more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor) A Map of Hope presents diverse women writers who have created a literature of global consciousness and justice. This collection of poems, essays, memoirs, and brief histories allows readers to hear voices that have decided to make a difference. It goes beyond geography and ethnic groups. Edited by Marjorie Agosin, Map of Hope contributors include: ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £20.05!
8	Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Emma Sepulveda 'This collection is a testimony of hope and endurance through the power of writing. The experience that unites us and that we want to share with you is the experience of exile, of belonging neither in Chile nor the United States: our experience of existing between two cultures and not feeling comfortable in either of them, of choosing the path of ... see all copies from £5.16! new only from £14.08! \| first editions
9	Happiness more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Isabel Allende, Elizabeth Horan (Translator) This is the first collection of stories by acclaimed poet Marjorie Agosn. In lyrical pieces more like poems-in-prose, Agosn celebrates both her own ethnic heritage and the universal human truths that demonstrate the myriad ways in which happiness is ultimately revealed to us. "These pieces are like tiny jewels that reflect dazzlingly a million ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	What Is Secret: Short Stories by Chilean Women more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Isabel Allende (Editor) This collection, the first of its kind in either Spanish or English, includes the work of over 30 writers and spans the years from 1920 to the present. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.70! \| first editions
11	Landscapes of a New Land: Short Fiction by Latin American Women more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Isabel Allende (Editor) Short stories in a wide variety of voices from Latin American women writers. Included are Margo Glantz, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Silvina Ocampo, Cristina Peri Rossi, and others. see all copies from £5.47! new only from £9.49! \| first editions
12 view cover	A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Alida Brill (Editor), Bella Abzung Women who have been elected to political office around the world tell their own stories. Includes Bella Abzug (former U.S. Congresswoman) on the importance of a feminist husband, Wu Qing (People's Congress Deputy) on how to be effective in Chinese politics, Janine Haines (former M. P., Australia) on barriers to women's participation in government, ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.41! \| first editions
13 view cover	Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor) The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare women's rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. The subordination of indigenous and minority women, ethnic ... see all copies from £11.97! new only from £18.09! \| first editions
14 view cover	Cartographies: Meditations on Travel more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Nancy Abraham Hall (Introduction by) On the impulse behind Cartographies, Marjorie Agosin writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home. In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £9.00!
15 view cover	To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11 more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Betty Jean Craige (Editor) This collection of essays is the first to examine the events of September 11, 2001 from a woman's point of view. Shortly after the terrorist attack on the United States, Marjorie Agosin and Betty Jean Craige asked women writers to think about both the effects and the causes of the attack and to reflect on what might be done to make a safer global ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £13.06! \| first editions
16 view cover	Ashes of Revolt: Essays on Human Rights more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Isabel Allende, Diane Russell-Pineda (Introduction by) This book records atrocities in Latin America but also reveals the voices of survivors. Many of the essays deal with life in Chile after the military coup, when torture and murder were a way of life, not just for those who openly opposed the regime but also for artists, writers and other "subversives". Some deal with the double persecution of Jews ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £11.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	Always from somewhere else : a memoir of my Chilean Jewish father more books like this by Marjorie Agosín, Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman Marjorie Agosin traces the life story of her father, Moises Agosin, a doctor, scientist, and classical pianist whose life reflects the lives of so many Jews of his generation, who were destined to be always refugees, always 'others' -- always from somewhere else. see all copies from £6.67! new only from £9.46! \| first editions
18 view cover	Sargasso more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Isabel Allende, Cola Franzen (Translator) The poems in this collection by critically-acclaimed Chilean poet, editor and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin reflect her deep-rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosin creates a world where everything touches the sea and is, in turn, touched by it - a simple world where when her son is born she asks for 'a flower, a light, ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras: Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship more books like this by Cola Franzen (Translator), Marjorie Agosin A moving historical account of the lives and creativity of Chilean poets. see all copies from £5.64! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Women of Smoke more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Naomi Lindstrom (Translator), Yvette E Miller (Photographer) see all copies from £3.66! new only from £12.54! \| first editions
21 view cover	Dear Anne Frank: Poems more books like this by Marjorie Agosin, Cola Franzen (Translator), Monica Bruno (Translator) Bilingual Edition. In these lyrical tributes to Anne Frank's courage and individualism, Chilean poet Marjorie Agosin captures the wrenching paradox of the young diarist's unshakable love of life, a love which endured unspeakable horrors. In this bilingual collection, first published in 1994, Agosin makes the girl's humanity palpable even as it ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £13.23! \| first editions
22 view cover	A Woman's Gaze: Essays on Latin American Women Artists more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Isabel Allende (Editor) The lives and art of these women are examined at length in essays by well-known critics, including Bruce Williams, Whitney Chadwick and Chelsea Miller Goin. As Marjorie Agosin notes in her introduction, the work of these women 'constitute one of the most extraordinary legacies of Latin America'. see all copies from £11.29! new only from £14.42! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Fullness of Invisible Objects / La Plenitud de Los Objectos Invisibles by Marjorie Agosin, Laura Rocha Nakazawa (Translator) see all copies from £7.12! new only from £7.12!
24 view cover	Fire from the Andes: Short Fiction by Women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru more books like this by Susan E Benner (Editor), Kathy S Leonard (Editor), Marjorie Agosin (Foreword by) This anthology provides an opportunity for English-speaking audiences to read previously untranslated fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Much of this work is inspired by an awareness of social injustice--particularly for women, indigenous groups, and other marginalized members of society and by a desire to transcend that injustice ... see all copies from £15.71! new only from £22.54!
25 view cover	Woman Without Background Music more books like this by Deila Dominguez, Marjorie Agosin, Roberta Gordenstein (Translator) Born in 1931, Delia Dominguez is one of the most important poets of Chile. "Woman Without Background Music" is the first volume of her poems to be published in English and collects poems from all phases of her work in a bilingual edition. see all copies from £4.17! new only from £8.26!

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