Blood of the dawn
By: Claudia Salazar Jiménez ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer
Contributors: Bryer, Elizabeth, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781941920428
Subjects: Fiction; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group); Women; History
Work titles: Sangre de la aurora
Description: This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.
Notes: "Originally published in Spanish in 2013 as La Sangre de la aurora by Animal de Invierno in Lima, Peru."--T.p. verso