The Carreta: A Novel

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, wor...