by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782743601423
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«Le rendez-vous des héros» is the novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Rivages in paperback (144 pages, in French).
Néstor Roca, wounded and hospitalized after the 1968 movement in Mexico, prepares his revenge and a popular revolution from his bed, summoning the heroes of his reading: Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D'Artagnan, Sherlock Holmes, Sandokan, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. It is a novel about nostalgia, anger, disenchantment and fidelity to reading.
The French edition, published in 1996, translates the original work «Héroes Convocados» (1982) with translation by René Solis and Mara Hernández.
A read for those looking for a novel with historical background and a tribute to the heroes of popular literature.
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.
