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.


Author: Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/03/2015
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780822358510
ISBN10: 0822358514
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Latin America | South America
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

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.