Los Alegres Muchachos de la Lucha de Clases / The Happy Guys from the Class Struggle

"This is and is not a novel just because fiction sometimes slips into its pages. It is also an autobiographical chronicle that begins with a four-year-old boy dressed in a yellow jacket, who progresses into a young man who is shot on June 10 and ends with a seventy-year-old man who talks with Lâopez Obrador about possible futures of books in Mexico. But it is much more than that, because it is also the chronicle of a generation of Mexican left-wing militants; of their defeats, their crises, their doubts, their favorite poems, their loves and divorces, their horrifying enemies, their favorite movies, their economic disasters, their tenacities, their deaths, their betrayals and their fears. It is, therefore, a book which if you do not want to recognize yourself in it (out of empathy or by chance) nor are you one of the two hundred mentioned by name, nickname or close description, the author is not going to hold you accountable."--Cataloger's translation.