Discussed in this essay:
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes, by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna. W. W. Norton. 384 pages. $28.95.
A burial procession in 2002, organized by Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in honor of the sixty-nine people, including eighteen children, who were killed by the Shining Path in 1983 in the village of Lucanamarca, in the Ayacucho region of Peru (detail). © Daniel Silva Yoshisato/El Comercio
In 1988, Peruvians found a surprise at their local newsstands: stories of a murderous love triangle involving the country’s…
