Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez

When Rains Became Floods

A Child Soldier's Story

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Produktbeschreibung

When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now an anthropologist. Gavilán Sánchez's words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358510
• ISBN-10: 0822358514
• Artikelnr.: 41196609

Autorenporträt

Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Surviving the Flood: The Multiple Lives of Lurgio Gavilán /
Carlos Iván Degregori ix
Introduction / Orin Starn xiii
1. In the Ranks of the Shining Path 1
2. At the Military Base 41
3. Time in the Franciscan Convent 67
4. I Return to the Countryside of Ayacucho 87
Glossary 99
Acknowledgments 103
Translator's Note and Acknowledgments 105
Notes 107
Index  121