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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
New, vastly improved translation,
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This review is from: Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power: A Novel (Found in Translation) (Paperback)
Twenty years ago, the now-defunct Plover Press published the first English translation of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Héroes convocados (Calling All Heroes). While it was valuable to have this novel available in English in any form, the translation left much to be desired -- it was overly literal and not very attuned to the Mexican and Mexico City regionalisms of the original text. Thankfully, PM Press has reprinted this important contribution to the body of "1968 literature" in a new, greatly improved English translation by Gregory Nipper. Highly recommended for readers interested in the history of Mexican or Latin American leftism or fans of PIT II's other work (Belascoarán Shayne detective novels or his memoir '68 in particular), this is a wonderful short, experimental novel that explores one individual's response to the abrupt and violent defeat of the Mexican student-popular movement of 1968.
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Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power by Paco Ignacio, II Taibo (Paperback - June 1990)
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