The Uncomfortable Dead: (What's Missing Is Missing)

Great writers by definition are outriders, raiders of a sort, sweeping down from wilderness territories to disturb the peace, overrun the status quo and throw into question everything we know to be true. . . . On its face, the novel is a murder mystery, and at the book's heart, always, is a deep love of Mexico and its people." --Los Angeles Times

Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is the author of numerous works of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world. He lives in Mexico City.


Author: Subcomandante Marcos, Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781933354897
ISBN10: 1933354895
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Crime

About the Author
Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the indigenous guerrilla group which was to become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s. Marcos is author of several books, including Story of the Colors, which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and Our Word is Our Weapon. Taibo was born in Gijon, Spain and has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many languages around the world, including a mystery series starring Mexican Private Investigator Héctor Belascoarán Shayne. He is a professor of history at the Metropolitcan Unviersity of Mexico City.