by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · Ediciones Urano · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789707103214
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«Arcángeles» is the history book by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Ediciones Urano in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together twelve portraits of heterodox revolutionaries of the twentieth century, from the Austrian Friedrich Adler to the Mexican Juan R. Escudero. Among those portrayed are Larissa Reisner, Durruti, Diego Rivera and the Painters' Union, P'eng P'ai or Librado Rivera, dissidents and atheists whose action left a mark on social and political history.
The subtitle of the work is «Doce historias de revolucionarios herejes del siglo XX». The cover features the Ficcionario collection.
Intended for readers interested in biographies, social history and revolutionary movements of the twentieth century.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes. In 2018, Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
