The Surrendered: Reflections by a Son of Shining Path.

• Author: Sherman, John W.
• Position: AMERICAS

Aguero, Jose Carlos. The Surrendered: Reflections by a Son of Shining Path. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.

Peru is at an interesting juncture regarding the Sendero War (1980-2000) and its memory. In 2015, the country opened the Lugar de la Memoria [LUM], a state-of-the-art exhibition on Lima's upscale Costa Verde. The same year, Jose Carlos Aguero published Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar, which sold well and triggered public debate about the historical place and meaning of Sendero Luminoso's vicious, dead-ended attempt at revolution. Now this brief, poetic work comes to us in artful translation, courtesy of University of California-Davis literature professor Michael J. Lazzara and history professor Charles F. Walker.

This is a thoughtful and...