The underdogs
Subtitle: a novel of the Mexican revolution
By: Mariano Azuela ; translated with an introduction and notes by Sergio Waisman ; foreword by Carlos Fuentes.
Contributors: Waisman, Sergio Gabriel.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780143105275
Subjects: Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Los de abajo.
Description: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macías, 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."--The publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xix]-xx).