Driven from his home by federal troops, the Jalisco peasant Demetrio Macías gathers a band of rebels in the sierra and is swept into the Revolution. A cynical former medical student, Luis Cervantes, attaches himself to the band. Azuela, a doctor who served with Pancho Villa’s forces, wrote from what he saw.
The founding novel of the Mexican Revolution, short, unsparing and still widely read. Download the free EPUB.
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