The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Penguin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Mariano Azuela

ISBN 10

0143105272

ISBN 13

9780143105275

Tags

Crime & Criminals, Classics, Military, Political, War, Literary

Description

The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translatorThe Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa?s army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an authentic representation of Mexico?s peasant life, and a timeless portrait of revolution, The Underdogs is an iconic novel of the Latin American experience and a powerful novel about the disillusionment of war. - from Amzon

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