I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975

By Kathleen Osberger

Book Overview

In September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer from Notre Dame, left for Santiago to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon arrival, she was told a secret: the religious women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet's secret police. Given the ever-tightening vise over the citizenry, brave and prophetic people reached out to protect the dissidents' lives in a world without due process and where detention, torture, disappearance, and death reigned. Soon, Osberger is handed a blindfold, a warrant, and must go on the run.

I Surrender depicts the solidarity of the Chilean people and the transformational role of nuns and priests dedicated to serving the poor, while highlighting the changing and challenged Catholic Church.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626985472
• ISBN13: 9781626985476
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary