Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Metallic Taste In Canned Tomatos

from the valley of the emerald


From the valley of the emerald

In 1990, amid the conflict with Sendero Luminoso, Lieutenant Leoncio Goicochea enters the emergency zone Peru. His early days in the battlefield and terrible images will draw a fierce war, where the ambushes, betrayals and the smell of death is made daily. In the middle of the jungle shadows stirred fails to differentiate the subversives lurking beneath the night, while coming to him snatches of what was his life in Lima. Commanding a group of soldiers, plunges in a territory that is strange, ghostly people who have filled long violence, a violence that Elijah summarized in the first lines of his blog: "The country is bleeding."

[Carlos Enrique Freyre]
few years ago decided to enlist in the Army as an infantry officer. Alongside a prolific literary career began. Has published the novels The Death of Giussepi Bari and The fantasmocopio . In 2005 he won the national award for the essay Military History Biased Truth and in 2007 wrote the screenplay for the movie Parallel Lives. The military life has been constantly on the incandescent interior of Peru, known as the palm of your hand

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