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With the first publication in English of Trozas, B. Traven's
legendary Jungle Novels, an epic of the birth of the Mexican
Revolution, are complete. Trozas is the fourth of the six Jungle
Novels that describe the conditions of peonage and debt slavery
under which Mexican Indians suffered during the reign of Porfirio
Diaz. The main character of the novel is a young Indian named
Andres Ugaldo, a virtual slave worker in a monteria--mahogany
plantation-which is purchased by the profit ?hungry Montellano
brothers, widely despised for their brutal treatment of workers.
The demands on Andres and his companions exceed even the usual
insufferable conditions in the monteria. Trozas (the word means
"logs") captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly
spread through the labor camps and haciendas, culminating in the
bloody revolt that ended Diaz's rule. Traven masterfully evokes the
backbreaking daily routine of the monteria, brings alive the
players in this sordid drama, and tells the story in riveting
narrative.
This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's
legendary Jungle Novels, brings to completion his epic of the birth
of the Mexican Revolution. A fine and powerful novel...stark in its
drama, steamy in its setting, acidic in its irony, relentless in
its narrative thrust. Alan Ryan, Washington Post
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