The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/01/2008
ISBN: 9780143105275
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 21586 / Underdogs
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 6