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Argentina's Dirty War (1976–83) is at the center of this gritty first novel from Betancourt, a Colombian politician held hostage and tortured for six years by an antigovernment rebel army—the subject of her memoir, Even Silence Has an End. During the Dirty War, Argentine military units imprisoned and tortured suspected subversives. Betancourt's engaging protagonist, Julia, who inherited the gift of prescience from her grandmother, managed to survive the barbarism of detention camps, even giving birth to a son, Uly...Log In or Sign Up to Read More