New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition - First English language edition of this classic Bolivian novel. Set in the early 1800s, this is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa, who tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Gabriel Waisman. A title in the Library of Latin America series with an introduction by the series editors, Jean Franco and Richard Graham. Edited and with a foreword by Alba Maria de la Paz Soldan. Notes. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-195113284.