Calling All Heroes

A Manual for Taking Power

By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II

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Paperback | 1 July 2010

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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 Tlatelolco massacre 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.

Industry Reviews

"Taibo's novels constitute an absurdist manifesto." --"Washington Post Book World" "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced, and well worth the challenge." --"Publishers Weekly" "Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." --"The Latin American Review of Books" "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." --"New York Times Book Review" "I am [Taibo's] number one fan . . . I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor." --Laura Esquivel, author, "Like Water for Chocolate"

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