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Calling all heroes a manual for taking power

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 Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable. The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he 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 movement of reform.

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  • "Manual para la toma del poder"

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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 Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable. The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he 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 movement of reform."@en
  • "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 Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable. The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he calls on the heroes of his youth, Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and D'Artagnan among themto join him in launching a new movement of reform."@en
  • "La ciudad se ha congelado. El movimiento del 68 vive su dolorosa derrota. Néstor Roca en un hospital de la Ciudad de México, llama a sus héroes de la infancia para derrocar al gobierno de Díaz Ordaz, y a su llamado llegan Sherlock Holmes, Sandokán con Yáñez, los tres mosqueteros, los lanceros de Balaclava, los Mau Mau, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, el sabueso de los Baskerville y Dick Turpin. Será el duelo definitivo, mientras el terrible año de la derrota, 1969 sigue corriendo y desde Lecumberri José Revueltas nos cuenta un motín de presos políticos y el propio Taibo reportero, el suicidio del cartero de Uruapan. Un libro entrañable, sorprendente y brillante."
  • "Hovering near death in his hospital bed, reporter Nestor reminisces about the violent demonstrations and bloody retaliation of 1968 and calls on the heroes of his childhood."

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  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mexican drama"

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  • "Héroes convocados"@es
  • "Héroes convocados"
  • "Héroes convocados : (manual para la toma del poder)"
  • "Héroes convocados manual para la toma del poder"@es
  • "Héroes convocados manual para la toma del poder"
  • "Calling all heroes : a manual for taking power"
  • "Le rendez vous des héros : manuel pour la prise du pouvoir : roman"
  • "Calling all heroes a manual for taking power"@en
  • "Le Rendez-vous des héros : Manuel pour la prise du pouvoir"
  • "Héroes convocados : manual para la toma del poder"@es
  • "Héroes convocados : manual para la toma del poder"
  • "Calling all heroes"@en
  • "Le rendez-vous des héros : manuel pour la prise du pouvoir"
  • "Le rendez-vous des héros : manuel pour la prise du pouvoir : roman"
  • "Calling All Heroes a Manual for Taking Power: A Novel"@en

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