The Choice & the Sacrifice - Couverture souple

Huff, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440104204 ISBN 13 : 9781440104206

Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Adventure/Romance story of an religiously patriotic young man from Central Utah uniquely involves his love for a girl, Angelina, and her twin sister, Marina from El Salvador. Young man John, is involved in an incident when he first meets Angelina where she is severally injured. She strangely disappears, but magically reappears to welcome him home six years later, when he returns after doing missionary work in San Diego for two years. They are convinced that they are to marry but are prevented from doing so by her father. Three years later, he pilots an airplane loaded with guns and ammunition for the rebels in the terrible civil war in El Salvador and crashes He is severely injured and nursed back to health by Marina, the twin of Angelina, and her brother, Pedro. The struggles that occur between John and these twins, not having seen each other for 19 years, are bizarre to say the least. The story follows the two families; John and his family from the US and the twin's family from El Salvador. It provides a view of the conditions, economically and politically, in El Salvador that made this tiny country the key in the struggle of the US against further intrusion of communism in this hemisphere beyond Cuba. As a result the US Embassy in El Salvador is the second largest in the world even thought El Salvador is the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere. This story deals with root causes of the incursion of large numbers of Central Americans (El Salvadorians primarily) and Mexicans into the U.S., Legal and illegal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440104204
• ISBN 13: 9781440104206
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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