"The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macías, 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."--The publisher.
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["History""Fiction""Spanish language""Readers""Chrestomathies and readers""Mexico -- History -- Revolution1910-1920 -- Fiction.""Historia""Ficci\u00f3n""Spanish language materials""Fictiongeneral""Mexicofiction""Fictionhistoricalgeneral""Mexicohistoryrevolution1910-1920fiction""Fiction (fictional works by one author)""Fictionwar & military""Revolution (Mexico : 1910-1920) fast (OCoLC)fst01354542""Translations into English""Pq7297.a9 l613 2008""863/.62""Novela mexicana""Novela"]