When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier's Story (Latin America In Translation)

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.

• | Author: Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 152 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822358514
• | ISBN-13: 9780822358510