The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator
The 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.
| ISBN: | 9780143105275 |
| Publication date: | 29th July 2008 |
| Author: | Mariano Azuela, Sergio Gabriel Waisman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 148 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
General Fiction War, combat and military adventure fiction Historical Fiction |