Charras is the true story of Efraín "El Charras" Calderón 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 Hernán 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 Yucatán, 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.

Author: Hernán Lara Zavala
Publisher: University Of New Orleans Press
Pages: 205pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Notes: paperback
Release Date: March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1608012657