The Carreta (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250482389)

Vendor: B. Traven
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Format: Paperback
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The Carreta

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The Carreta

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Format: Paperback
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From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multivolume Jungle Novels series.

Andrés is a young Indigenous oxcart driver in the mahogany camps of southern Mexico, bound to a system of debt slavery he scarcely understands. Unlike many of the men around him, he can read, and he holds fast to a single hope: that one day he will return to his wife. Yet the terms of his captivity reach beyond his own labor. Around him, work continues without end, enforced by habit, coercion, and the illusion that freedom can be earned. Andrés believes he can clear the debt and go home. The system ensures that he cannot.

The Carreta presents a grim vision of lives controlled by forces beyond their power, where endurance replaces hope, duty becomes a burden, and aspirations gradually give way to reality.

Author: B. Traven
ISBN-10: 1250482380
ISBN-13: 9781250482389
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2027
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By B. Traven
By B. Traven
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B. Traven (1882-1969) is the pen name of the most enigmatic writer of the twentieth century. His other aliases include Hal Croves, Traven Torsvan, and Ret Marut. Born in Germany, Traven spent much of his adult life in Mexico. He once wrote, "I shall always and at all times prefer to be pissed on by dogs than reveal who I am." He has sold over thirty million books, in over thirty languages. Film adaptations of his work include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which won three Oscars; Macario, the first Oscar-nominated Mexican film; and The Death Ship, a cult classic in Germany. He is a model for Archimboldi, the hero of Roberto Bolaño's 2666.

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