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Akashic Books
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
298 pages
ISBN: 1933354895
EAN: 9781933354897
Kindle: B008G3GEGW
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A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir
collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most
courageous revolutionary--featuring bonus materials,
including an interview with Subcomandante Marcos by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez. "Great writers by definition are
outriders, raiders of a sort, sweeping down from wilderness
territories to disturb the peace, overrun the status quo and
throw into question everything we know to be true . . . On
its face, the novel is a murder mystery, and at the book's
heart, always, is a deep love of Mexico and its people. "
--Los Angeles Times In alternating chapters,
Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently
excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder
mystery with two intersecting storylines. The chapters
written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the
mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. There, the fictional
"Subcomandante Marcos " assigns Elias Contreras--an odd but
charming mountain man--to travel to Mexico City in search of
an elusive and hideous murderer named "Morales." The
second story line, penned by Taibo, stars his famous series
detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. Hector guzzles
Coca-Cola and smokes cigarettes furiously amidst his
philosophical and always charming approach to investigating
crimes--in this case, the search for his own
"Morales." The two stories collide absurdly and
dramatically in the urban sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly
history of the city's political violence rears its head, and
both detectives find themselves in an unpredictable dance of
death with forces at once criminal, historical, and
political. Readers expecting political heavy-handedness will
be disarmed by the humility and playful self-mocking that
runs throughout the book.
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