When Rains Became Floods - A Child Soldier''s Story

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico).

Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books, including Che On My Mind, also published by Duke University Press.
 

Summary

When Rains Became Floods is the stunning autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the Peruvian Civil War. After escaping the war, he became a Franciscan priest.

Product details

• Authors: Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, Lurgio Gavilan/ Randall Sßnchez
• Assisted by: Margaret Randall (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2015
• EAN: 9780822358510
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5851-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Latin America in Translation; Latin America in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Peru, Amerikanische Geschichte