A TRAVÉS DE ENTRELAZAR LAS HISTORIAS DE PERSONAJES, ESTE LIBRO DESCRIBE LOS CRUENTOS CHOQUES QUE SOPORTÓ ESTOICAMENTE EL POBRE Y MAL ARMADO PUEBLO MEXICANO PARA DEFENDER A LA PATRIA DURANTE EL COMPLICADO SIGLO XIX.
Rodolfo Benavides was a Mexican writer whose early life included work as a miner, migrant laborer, and imprisonment due to communist activism. In later years he wrote esoteric, metaphysical, and occult-themed novels alongside historical essays, some later translated into English and French.