| Author/Contributor(s): | Azuela, Mariano; Fuentes, Carlos; Waisman, Sergio; Waisman, Sergio; Waisman, Sergio |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 7/29/2008 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.