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Calling All Heroes - a manual for taking power

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Manufacturer: PM Press

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"The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolco by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre of Tlatelolco was erased from the official record as easily as authorities washing the blood from the streets, and no one was ever held accountable. 

It is two years later and Nestor, a journalist and participant in the fateful events, lies recovering in the hospital from a knife wound. His fevered imagination leads him in the collection of facts and memories of the movement and its assassination in the company of figures from his childhood. Nestor calls on the heroes of his youth - Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and D'Artagnan among them - to join him in launching a new reform movement conceived by his intensely active imagination."

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, translated by Gregory Nipper. Published by PM Press, 2010.

Product Code: 9781604862058

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