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From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multivolume Jungle Novels series.
Andrés is a young Indigenous oxcart driver in the mahogany camps of southern Mexico, bound to a system of debt slavery he scarcely understands. Unlike many of the men around him, he can read, and he holds fast to a single hope: that one day he will return to his wife. Yet the terms of his captivity reach beyond his own labor. Around him, work continues without end, enforced by habit, coercion, and the illusion that freedom can be earned. Andrés believes he can clear the debt and go home. The system ensures that he cannot.
The Carreta presents a grim vision of lives controlled by forces beyond their power, where endurance replaces hope, duty becomes a burden, and aspirations gradually give way to reality.
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B. Traven (1882-1969) was a pen name of one of the most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. The life and work of the author, whose other aliases include Hal Croves, Traven Torsvan, and Ret Marut, has been called "the greatest literary mystery of the twentieth century." Of German descent and Mexican nationality, he has sold more than thirty million books, in more than thirty languages. Films of his work include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which won three Oscars; Macario, the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Oscar; and The Death Ship, a cult classic in Germany.
