{"product_id":"9781608012657","title":"Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination that Roiled the Yucatan","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharras 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of New Orleans Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49180625993961,"sku":"9781608012657","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9781608012657.jpg?v=1760023633","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9781608012657","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}