Bibliograph

When rains became floods, a child soldier's story, Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez ; with the collaboration of Yerko Castro Neira ; foreword by Carlos Iván Degregori ; introduction by Orin Starn ; translated by Margaret Randall

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When rains became floods, a child soldier's story, Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez ; with the collaboration of Yerko Castro Neira ; foreword by Carlos Iván Degregori ; introduction by Orin Starn ; translated by Margaret Randall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

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mapsphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When rains became floods

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez ; with the collaboration of Yerko Castro Neira ; foreword by Carlos Iván Degregori ; introduction by Orin Starn ; translated by Margaret Randall

Series statement

Latin America in Translation

Sub title

a child soldier's story

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

In the ranks of Shining Path -- At the military base -- Time in the franciscan convent -- I return to the countryside of Ayacucho

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