The Shining Path : love, madness, and revolution in the Andes / Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starn, Orin, author.

La Serna, Miguel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group).

Communists.

Revolutionaries.

Guerrillas.

Terrorism.

History.

Guerrilla warfare.

Revolutions.

Peru--Politics and government--1968-1980.

Peru.

Politics and government.

Peru--Politics and government--1980-.

Revolutions--Peru--History--20th century.

Guerrilla warfare--Peru--History--20th century.

Terrorism--Peru--History--20th century.

Guerrillas--Peru--Biography.

Revolutionaries--Peru--Biography.

Communists--Peru--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Summary:

"A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru long after the fall of global communism. The tale of the Shining Path may be the most gripping saga in modern Latin American history, but its full story has never been told. Described by a U.S. State Department cable as 'cold-blooded and bestial, ' this band of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionaries mounted a guerrilla war in the 1980s that led to more than 60,000 deaths or disappearances. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzmán, who launched his quixotic insurrection based on outmoded, dogmatic ideology alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparaguirre, who abandoned her family to join the war. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna's narrative also introduces the mountain villagers who organized a fierce resistance, the mercurial black activist María Elena Moyano, and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. Dramatic and engaging, The Shining Path takes the reader into the heart of this brutal rebellion, and the lives and country it nearly destroyed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The train to Machu Picchu

A tree can be a weapon

Comrade Norah

The great rupture

First blood

The lynching

Inquest in the Andes

Shouting in the rocks

The Queen of Villa

The shining trench

The Party Congress

The death of Comrade Norah

The revolution comes to Villa

A fish out of water

Ghostbusters

The clever frog

The birthday party

A death foretold

The wolf and the whale

Fat cheeks, affirmative!

The silence of the lambs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393292800

0393292800

OCLC:

1037810901