Victor Perera – författare

"The Last Lords of Lalenque" is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. They are the sole inheritors of an oral tradition that preserves - more than 400 years after the Spanish Conquest - a cosmology, a morality and a psychology as sophisticated as our own. Journalist and novelist Victor Perera and linguist Robert Bruce have lived among the Lacandones, chronicling their imperiled Mayan culture.

Spanning the years of civil war in Guatemala, this book portrays an embattled country facing the third cycle of a conquest that began when the conquistadors arrived in the 16th century. As personal narrative weaves with reportage, it text presents the victims, champions and villains of the society.