Returning From The Underground

Years after the death of his father--who in the 1970s sacrificed everything in pursuit of his ideals and joined the underground guerilla army in Mexico--the narrator and his younger brother try to piece together the fragments of their family history. The narration takes us through a wrenching journey of reconstructing past and memory family love and abandonment all amidst the historical moment of dirty war.Fritz Glockner takes us into the astonishing testimony of a family touched by the dirty war and their moving relationship with a father who is gone then tortured and imprisoned then freed and finally assassinated. Returning from the Underground is a profound reflection about love and forgiveness that brings together the virtues of testimony and at the same time it enters into the very conflictive field of family love father-son relationships and more importantly relationships of absence identity and loss.Above all this novel is an indirect story a testimony that allows readers to learn a bit about the Mexican dirty war of the 1970s. It gives a voice to a history seldom spoken about: a horrifying dirty war that brought a few hundred idealists to the urgent decision of having to change the course of a nation in the quickest and most desperate way. This in the face of a system with a great capacity for evil; a repressive system capable of torture assassinations the shooting at cribs and the killing innocence in its sleep. The full story of this historical period has not been told. Its a story to which it seems the nation has applied self-censorship. It is a story that awaits for the day when criminals can be brought to trial for their crimes.