Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey,
Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about
Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did
Mexico's northern neighbor steal a large swath of the country in
the Mexican-American War, but according to Matus it also denied him
Olympic glory. Excluded from the 1924 Olympics, Matus ran his own
parallel marathon and beat the time of the American who officially
won the bronze medal. After spending decades attempting to
vindicate his supposed triumph and claim the medal, Matus seeks an
even bigger vindication-he will reconquer Texas for Mexico!
Recruiting an army of "los iluminados," the enlightened ones, Matus
sets off on a quest as worthy of Don Quixote as it is doomed. David
Toscana is one of Latin America's leading contemporary writers, and
his books have won several prestigious awards, including the Casa
de las Americas Prize for The Enlightened Army. The novel's
treatment of the troubled relations between Mexico and the United
States makes it highly topical at a time when immigration and
border walls capture headlines, while its lyrical writing and
humorous take on the absurdities of everyday life offer timeless
pleasures.
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