”To die is not as terrible as to not know why one lives”Even the most hard-bitten of cynics cannot remain untouched by Belli`s passionate account of a time when people laid down their lives for outmoded ideals like freedom and social equality.In her poetic voice, rendered into beautiful English from the original Spanish, Belli intertwines the story of her country with that of her life - a life that combined nights of gun smuggling and dinners with Fidel Castro with days as a bourgeois advertising executive and single-mother.