When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gaviln Snchez, 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. Gaviln Snchez's words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love.
When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gaviln Snchez, 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. Gaviln Snchez's words mark otherwise forgotten acts of brutality and kindness, moments of misery and despair as well as solidarity and love.