A novel by Mauro Javier Cardenas
September 6, 2016 6 x 9 296 Pages 978-1-56689-446-3
Three childhood friends reunite to transform Ecuador only to find their idealism has succumbed to the cynicism of their fathers.
Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuadors austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friendsan expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwrightwho are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other.
About the Author
Mauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in economics from Stanford University. Excerpts from his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, have appeared in Conjunctions, the Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, and BOMB. His interviews and essays on/with Lszl Krasznahorkai, Javier Maras, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Juan Villoro, and Antnio Lobo Antunes have appeared in Music & Literature, the San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, and the Quarterly Conversation.