The Eyes That Have Cried - Cortez, Teresa
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The Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war. Teresa Cortez is a young girl living in El Salvador in the 1980s. The Salvadoran Civil War produces no winners and is a tragedy in which neither side can claim moral high ground. The government uses death squads; the rebels use terrorism. As with most of the population, Teresa is caught in the middle, watching as the country devolves into chaos. As the violence ramps up, a "bourgeois" life of privilege puts Teresa in mortal danger and when her father is tortured and killed by the rebels, the decision is…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war. Teresa Cortez is a young girl living in El Salvador in the 1980s. The Salvadoran Civil War produces no winners and is a tragedy in which neither side can claim moral high ground. The government uses death squads; the rebels use terrorism. As with most of the population, Teresa is caught in the middle, watching as the country devolves into chaos. As the violence ramps up, a "bourgeois" life of privilege puts Teresa in mortal danger and when her father is tortured and killed by the rebels, the decision is made to smuggle Teresa out of the country to the United States. She goes alone, at seventeen, though she knows nobody and speaks no English. There, she faces other struggles. And with her native homeland never out of mind, life for Teresa begins losing its meaning.
Autorenporträt
Teresa Cortez is the nom-de-plume of the author, whose identity and whereabouts must remain unknown. As a girl born into wealth, the niece of the deposed dictator, and the sister of four brothers who served in the military, her life continues to be in danger from certain elements that continue to fight a brutal war that technically ended in 1992, twelve bloody years after its beginning. She lives peacefully with her husband somewhere in the western half of the United States. The Eyes That Have Cried is the story of her survival and triumph.