La Guerra De Galio

This account of the turbulent years that followed the Mexican goverment's violent repression of the student uprising in 1968 is told though the experiences of a fictional historian-turned-journalist-turned-historian again. His notes and journals, together with testimonials and other sources, form the basis for this social and political history, biography, and novel. Carlos Fuentes has praised the book's blinding clarity, and he adds:" All Mexicans have lived at least part of this war...These wounded lives are, or could be, our own."