Product Details
Washington Square Press, May 2007
Trade Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0743296818
ISBN-13: 9780743296816
Description
Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.
"With Guillermo Arriaga's work, something curious happens: he discovers new paths, abandons previous characters and themes, and manages to confect a truly masterful little novel."
-- Amarantxa Ferrari, La Reforma
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