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Paperback Zapatista Book

ISBN: 1588203328

ISBN13: 9781588203328

Zapatista

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Blake's second novel, Zapatista, is faithfully based on the facts of the 1994 Chiapas Indian uprising in southern Mexico. Whether looking for an adventure story or a deeper look into the real drama of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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By a gifted writer of memorable fiction

Set amid the Zapatista revolution of the 1990s through the present day, Zapatista is a novel about a writer who gets caught up in the struggle for the poverty-stricken Native Americans of Mexico. In the middle of guns, bloodshed, and the hope for a more equal tomorrow, he falls in love with a beautiful Native woman and his life changes forever. Zapatista documents Blake Bailey as a gifted writer of memorable fiction who is able to make his characters live and their surroundings form an impressive context for original storytelling. A portion of the proceeds from Zapatista will be donated to the Zapatista movement in Mexico.

I never knew about the war to the south.

This book is an adventure, a wild ride, a plane crash to avoid a forced military landing, grab the bags of money and run. A tale of a person displaced, going on a vacation and end up killing for a cause. If you have ever been an occasional traveler in Mexico this book throws out a whole new twist, while teaching you some history about the Chiapas Indians and the Zapatista movement.

A Page-turner

This is an excting, engrossing story of an American caught up in the Chiapas Indian revolution in Mexico -- a subject I knew nothing about prior to reading the book. The author gives a vivid portrayal of the struggles of the Chiapas Indians and makes it very real to the reader in a poignant way. This was a definite page-turner, as I couldn't wait to see what would happen to the protagonist next. I would definitely like to see more books from this author.

Pleasant surprise

I bought Zapatista by mistake, thinking that it was a chronology of the Zapatista rebellion, and found myself engaged in a fasinating fiction about an American writer and his adventures in Chiapas, Mexico. I've studied the Zapatista struggle and have visited the area and I can say this story is historically accurate and I can vouch for some of the geographic detail. This author did his homework.

Zapatista review

I found Zapatista historical, yet fresh and interesting--a Mexican revolution seen through the eyes of an American accidentally caught up in it. And later choosing to remain. Sex, violence, history--it would make a good movie.
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