Marie Arana
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
estadounidense, Âżno?
Porque no se interesaban para nada en las vidas o las historias, los cuentos sobre los latinos.
No se interesaban para nada.
Nunca me preguntaron nada de mi pasado, de dĂłnde habĂa vivido, de dĂłnde habĂa nacido, nada.
Y cuando yo traté de traer un proyecto, un libro, un
possible, coming from my own cultural life as a Peruvian, I would say, oh, the Hispanics don't read.
It's not a market.
Imagine.
That was in the times when we were like 10 million or more.
Y entonces somos, ahora somos 65 millones.
Y yo tratĂ©, en los otros libros mĂos, tratĂ©, porque habĂa empezado esta, vamos a decir, este proyecto de enseñar a los estadounidenses quiĂ©nes somos, cuĂĄl, quĂ© historia tenemos, de dĂłnde hemos venido.
Entonces empecé con la historia, mi propia historia, un libro de memorias que se llamaba American Chica.
Entonces, dos novelas tratando de explicar un poco de nosotros.
TambiĂ©n una biografĂa de Simon BolĂvar que era para mĂ una posibilidad de contar
about more geography, about more chronology of the history of who we were.
And all that history of the wars of independence that were so different than the war of independence of the revolution in this country.
many differences and I wanted to explain why.
So the next book was The Silver, the Sword and the Stone, which tries to explain how 500 years of history in Latin American countries continues to live now and continues to be problems that we have today.
So I got to the point where there was
I went from my own book of memories to such a big story.