<div><i>When Rains Became Floods</i> 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.<br></div>