by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496453593
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«Arcángeles» is a history book by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Traficantes de Sueños in paperback (332 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together twelve portraits of men and women who defied the established power: from the Mexican muralists to the anti-colonial struggle in Angola, from the Germany of 1918-1921 to the Russian revolution and the Chinese agrarian one. Paco Ignacio Taibo II traces a journey through the memory of resistance and the defeats that fuel new attempts at change.
It belongs to the Historia collection (no. 11) and includes bibliographical references.
For readers of contemporary history interested in resistance, memory and twentieth-century revolutionary movements.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes. In 2018, Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
