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“Beautifully realized memoir of the Oct. 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre … [Taibo] evokes relationships, passions and arguments lovingly… [His] memoir goes a long way toward setting the record straight.” —Publishers Weekly

“The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo’s storytelling art lies in the ‘wild and melancholy’ tango of life he sees everywhere.” –Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Paco Ignacio Taibo II,best known for his detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne book series, is one of the foremost crime fiction writers in the Spanish-speaking world today. In 2019 he wasnamed head of Mexico’s Fondo de Cultura Econ mica, effectively a minister of literary culture.He is also the director of the acclaimed Semana Negra de Gij n, a literary festival in Spain. He is a tireless social activist, historian, and author of the best-selling biography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara,Guevara Also Known as Che. He has written more than forty books altogether, which have been published in twenty-eight countries. Some of his novels have been considered “Best Books of the Year” bytheNew York Times,Le Monde,andtheLos Angeles Times. He has received several literary prizes, including the Premio Hammett for best crime fiction in Spain (three times), the 813 literary award for best foreign crime novel published in France, and the Premio Bancarella for the best book of the year in Italy.Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated numerous works from the French and Spanish including Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life.

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