The Vanquished

“Thanks to Sidney Mintz’s impressively accurate and beautiful translation and his insightful and sensitive notes, Andreu has found other beginnings. . . . One could not think of a better translator. . . . This volume is cause for celebration.” — Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, from the Afterword

“The Vanquished reflects César Andreu Iglesias’s understanding of the contradictions of Puerto Rican nationalism in the 1950s. The author, a highly respected independentista critic of the Nationalist Party, spent much of his journalistic career trying to align the struggle for Puerto Rican independence with Labor and other social movements. Faithful to the historical setting, in which traditional colonial life was giving way to industrial capitalism, this compelling novel will be read gainfully by students of the Caribbean, Latin America, and twentieth-century anti-colonialist struggles in a variety of settings.” — Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin–Madison