Paco Ignacio Taibo, II

Featuring a diverse cast of characters including Leon Trotsky, Stan Laurel, Pancho Villa, and other real and fictional figures, a novel of two friends slowly unravels a tale of truth and lies, humor and tragedy, political intrigue and ambition. Reprint.

A Novel

Four Hands

A monumental, history-making biography of the man who saved the Mexican Revolution on the 100th anniversary of his death. Pancho Villa, a deeply researched masterpiece, is also a rollicking, sometimes hilariously comical, sometimes extremely violent, and always very personal portrait of the controversial Pancho Villa and the times in which he lived and fought. Villa is one of Mexico’s most beloved (or loathed) historical figures and this book provides an unforgettable window onto the Mexican revolution that brings to life the early 20th century in Mexico, replete with period photographs that indelibly capture the rocky transition from the wild and agrarian past towards modern statehood. In this biography translated into English for the first time, renowned crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II (a.k.a. PIT)—the prolific historian, biographer of Che Guevara and the founder of Mexican “neopolicial” fiction—brings his tremendous storytelling skills to an account of one of the Mexico’s greatest legendary characters. With his vibrant narrative style, Taibo describes the adventures of Pancho Villa with incredible stories, the stuff of history and tragedy, backed up by tremendous research. Throughout, Taibo unveils secrets about the life of one of Mexico's most courageous and charismatic leaders, and establishes as never before Villa’s stature as one of the most important founders and protectors of modern Mexico.

A Narrative Biography

Pancho Villa

A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna and fights gunslingers, traitors, lunatics, and visionaries to find the murderer of an American photographer. Reprint.

Life Itself

In Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students—among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform—were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. The bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. To this day, no one has been held accountable for the acts of savagery and these events are nowhere to be found in official histories. One member of the student movement that was crushed that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure. ’68is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo claims for history “one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands.”

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