Description: "Charras is the true story of Efraâin 'El Charras' Calderâon Lara, a twenty-six-year-old union leader and student activist, and the Yucatean government's successful plot to kidnap and murder him. Acclaimed Mexican novelist Hernâan Lara Zavala combines real-life newspaper articles and interviews with renderings of key events, laying the state-sanctioned narrative of Charras's death beside the actual experiences of those involved. To kaleidoscopic effect, Zavala enters not only the mind of the hero but also those in his orbit: the governor of the Yucatâan, Charras's bureaucrat brother-in-law, even the mercenary hired to carry out the kidnapping-the chilling 'you' whose point-of-view the reader must inhabit to unravel what took place during that fateful spring of 1974"--
