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A Woman Standing. The extraordinary destiny of Sonia Pierre, daughter of cane cutters, who made her life a fight for human rights. Dominican Republic, 1963. Sonia Pierre was born in Lechería, in a batey, a camp of sugar cane cutters. Aware of the inhumane treatment reserved for these workers, she organized, at only thirteen years old, a strike to assert their rights. One of the rare inhabitants of the batey to study, she became a lawyer and devoted her entire life to fighting injustice until her tragic death. Catherine Bardon reveals the existence of this exceptional woman and highlights the terrible condition of migrant workers in the Dominican Republic, a subject that is still relevant today. A moving plea for solidarity and fraternity, A Woman Standing is a powerful and terribly human novel

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• Categories->Books->2024
• Languages->World Languages->French
• Subjects->Fiction
• Subjects->Historical Novel
• Subjects->Paperback