Volume 46, Number 6 · April 8, 1999
The Truth About Rigoberta Menchú
By Peter Canby
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
by David Stoll
Westview, 336 pp., $27.00
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
edited and introduced by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, translated by Ann Wright
Verso, 251 pp., $18.00 (paper)
In 1983, Editions Gallimard in Paris brought out the original French edition of a book published the following year in English as I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian woman in Guatemala. I, Rigoberta is the first-person story of Rigoberta Menchú Tum, a young Maya Indian woman whose family and village had been virtually destroyed by the violence then sweeping Guatemala. The book was soon translated into twelve languages and has since sold more than half a million copies.
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