The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

by Miguel La Serna (Author), Miguel La Serna (Author), Orin Starn (Author)

Synopsis

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 Guzman, 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 Maria 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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 384
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 31 May 2019

ISBN 10: 0393292800
ISBN 13: 9780393292800

Author Bio
Orin Starn is a professor in Duke University's cultural anthropology department and has written for many years about Peru. Miguel La Serna is a historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a leading specialist in the Peruvian armed conflict.