Elena Poniatowska
La noche de Tlatelolco: testimonios de historia oral.
Mexico City: Biblioteca Era, 1998. Author-signed revised second edition. 9684114257 281 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Name of previous owner and date ("marzo '99") appear at top edge of preliminary page. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with full-page b&w photos at front of volume.
Inscription on half title page reads "A Andrea que es / muy bonita, un / gran abrazo de / su amiga / Elena Poniatowska / 8 de julio / 1999."
This celebrated work by Mexican author E. Poniatowska (b. 1932) provides a multi-layered and polyphonic account of the massacre by the Mexican Army of hundreds of students and demonstators on October 2, 1968 on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Mexico City neighborhood of Tlatelolco. This work contains interviews with eyewitnesses, survivors, political prisoners and members of their families, interspersed with literary texts, including excerpts from pre-Hispanic texts and newspaper articles, as well as political slogans.