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Tunnel to Canto Grande
- Title
- Tunnel to Canto Grande / by Claribel Alegría and Darwin Flakoll ; translated by Darwin Flakoll.
- Author
- Alegría, Claribel.
- Publication
- Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV9625.C362 C36313 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Flakoll, D. J. (Darwin J.)
- Description
- 193 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an "escape proof" penitentiary, Canto Grande, to free forty-eight political prisoners on July 9, 1990. The prisoners escaped through the tunnel without a single casualty and eluded the authorities.
- Because of their world-wide reputation as writers of testimony, the authors, Alegria and Flakoll, were invited by MRTA leaders to write the exclusive story of the escape. At no small risk to their own safety, they spent a week in the most hunted-for safehouse in Lima, Peru, interviewing the participants in the project and the escapees. The resulting narrative is filled with suspense, drama and humor.
- Uniform Title
- Fuga de Canto Grande. English
- Alternative Title
- Fuga de Canto Grande.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 1880684349
- LCCN
- 95037983
- OCLC
- ocm33078327
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries