Title: Sak'umesh
Description: This is very intense novel that takes place during a period of intense deforestation and colonization of the forest in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It takes place mostly in Wayak', a small Maya village in the rain forests of Quintana Roo. Gabriel Angaros, a young agronomist from Mexico City, arrives at Wayak' to develop a research on soil taxonomy and is slowly drawn into a romantic relationship with Carmelita, a mestiza from Tizimín, and into the vortex of an indigenous uprising.
Subjects: Yucatan, Maya, existential realism
Places: Tizimín, Wayak', Mérida, Chetumal, Campeche, Rio Lagartos, Carrillo Puerto, Cancun, Mexico City, etc.
People: Gabriel Angaros, Carmelita, Manolo, Parraguez, Culebra (Pancho Kan), Eduardo, Pelluco, etc.
Time periods: Between 1989 and 1990, Yucatan, Mexico.