From Beneath the Volcano: The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family

by Michael Gorkin and Marta Evelyn Pineda

Book Overview

In 1980 El Salvador was plunged into a bloody civil war, and Luis Campos, a peasant farmer, found himself drawn into a deadly political maelstrom of guerrilla fighting for twelve years. In this collection of fascinating and revealing oral histories, Gorkin and Pineda portray the personal and social lives of Luis and his family, who for the past eighteen years have been working to rebuild their lives in their new community beneath the Guazapa volcano...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529620
• ISBN13: 9780816529629
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Arizona Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"