Southern Front

by Alejandro Murguía

Fiction. SOUTHERN FRONT is a collection of stories that describe the experiences of the international volunteers who went to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas in their overthrow of the Somoza regime. The stories, which take place during the final offensive and aftermath of the war, focus mainly on Ulises, a Chicano internationalist from Los Angeles.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

Alejandro Murguía was born in California, but raised in Mexico City. His experiences as an international volunteer in the Nicaraguan Insurrection of 1979 are recounted in his second collection of short stories Southern Front (American Book Award, 1991). He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches Latin American literature at San Francisco State University.