My Name is Victoria The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity

Argentinars"s coup drs"eacute;tat in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history-thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently "disappeared." And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and "given" to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the regime. Analiacute;a was one of these children, raised without suspecting that she was adopted. At twenty seven, she learned that her name wasnrs"t what she believed it to be, that her parents werenrs"t her real parents, and that the farce conceived by the dictatorship had managed to survive through more than two decades of democracy.InMy Name is Victoria, it is no longer Analiacute;a, but Victoria who tells us her story, in her own words: the life of a young and thriving middleclass woman from the outskirts of Buenos Aires with strong political convictions. Growing up, she thought she was the black sheep of the family with ideas diametrically opposed to her parentsrs". It wasnrs"t until she discovered the truth about her origins and the shocking revelation of her unclers"s involvement in her parentsrs" murder and in her kidnapping and adoption that she was able to fully embrace her legacy. Today, as the youngest member of congress in Argentina, she has reclaimed her identity and her real name: Victoria Donda. This is Victoriars"s story, from the moment her parents were abducted to the day she was elected to parliament.

Victoria Donda is a human rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a disappeared person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She is also the youngest woman to hold that office.
 
Magda Bogin is a novelist, translator, and journalist. She is the author of Natalya, God’s Messenger, and The Women Troubadours, and has published numerous translations, including House of the Spirits. Fluent in Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Russian, she is the founder and director of Under the Volcano.