Book description
I> comes out of the time the author spent in Mexico in 1994-5,
during the Zapatista uprising. Set in the impoverished southern Mexican
state of Chiapas in the early 1990s, at the time of the rebellion by the
indigenous population and Zapatista activists (the EZLN) against the
wealthy landowners and the political establishment.
The narrative switches between a number of characters who represents
different aspects of the conflict: the indigenous, who may or may not be
in sympathy with the revolt, but are in some way on a level with it, and
members of the governing class, trying to deal with this revolution and
its effects while the economy is spinning out of control.>The
Yellow Cathedral
I> comes out of the time the author spent in Mexico in
1994-5, during the Zapatista uprising. Set in the impoverished
southern Mexican state of Chiapas in the early 1990s, at the time of
the rebellion by the indigenous population and Zapatista activists
(the EZLN) against the wealthy landowners and the political establishment.
The narrative switches between a number of characters who
represents different aspects of the conflict: the indigenous, who may
or may not be in sympathy with the revolt, but are in some way on a
level with it, and members of the governing class, trying to deal with
this revolution and its effects while the economy is spinning out of
control.>The Yellow Cathedral
