Books by Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a terrorist guerrilla organisation. She was held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a half years, chained day and night for much of that time, constantly on the move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was freed and reunited with her children and relatives in 2008.It is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this important and deeply moving book, telling in her own words the extraordinary drama of her capture and eventual rescue, and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically. As she confronts the horror of what she went through, her story also goes beyond the specifics of her own confinement to offer an intensely intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate reflection on what it means to be human.

Med forord af Lene Johansen.Ingrid Betancourt blev taget til fange, fordi hun som præsidentkandidat kæmpede for et demokratisk Columbia. Da hun blev befriet, var hun blevet en anden - klogere på sig selv, sine medmennesker og ikke mindst livet.Selv stilhed hører op er en rystende selvbiografi skrevet af en kvinde, der har haft en priviligeret opvækst i Europa - og endte med at blive behandlet som et dyr. Det er historien om en mor, der blev kidnappet og først så sine børn, da de var blevet voksne. Og det er historien om fortællingen om livet, når det for alvor bliver udfordret; om frygt, sult, angst, ensomhed, skrøbelighed, håb, mod og behovet for at have en vis værdighed og følelse af frihed i behold. Også når du har en lænke om halsen, og ikke må tale og ikke kan flygte.Ingrid Betancourt blev taget til fange i 2002 og befriet under stor, international mediebevågenhed i 2008.