The underdogs: a novel of the mexican revolution - mariano azuela

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 Villas 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 Mexicos 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.