The fifth and final novel in Scorza's La guerra silenciosa (The Silent War), which chronicles the Indian unrest in the Peruvian Andes that he witnessed at the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s. Like the series as a whole, it focuses on the attempts by the Quechua Indians to reclaim their ancestral lands, which were appropriated by large landowners and a powerful mining corporation. La tumba del relmpago , published by Siglo XXI Editores in 1979, is the fourth novel of Scorza's that Anna-Marie Aldaz (Spanish, Northern Arizona U.- Yuma) has translated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
