num_pages: 368
description: From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt a stunning debut novel about freedom and fateSet against the backdrop of Argentinas Dirty War and infused with magical realism The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the worlds most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Buenos Aires the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before her eyes mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact as her grandmother tells her it is her duty to do sootherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen Julia falls in love with Theo a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Pern the former president and military dictator returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers. Julia and Theo are radical idealists equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons they somehow manage to escape. . . .In this remarkable novel Betancourt an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression collective subservience and individual courage and most of all the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving. 
language: English
title: The Blue Line
publisher: Penguin Press