Synopses & Reviews
Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in Chiapasand#8212;a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. Outsiders question the movement they've come so far to supportand#8212;and each otherand#8212;when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiquand#233;s of Subcomandante Marcosand#8212;a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local compaand#241;eros and echoes of B. Traven, Joseph Conrad, and Albert Camus round out this epic yarn.
Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and is the author of Clandestines.
Synopsis
The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.
About the Author
Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator living in Chiapas, Mexico. His first book, Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile, was published in 2006.