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In English
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Description:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: Surviving the Flood: The Multiple Lives of Lurgio Gavilán -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. In the Ranks of Shining Path -- 2. At the Military Base -- 3. Time in the Franciscan Convent -- 4. I Return to the Countryside of Ayacucho -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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