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Herrera’s storytelling is both timely and timeless, offering a vivid exploration of contemporary issues through compelling narratives.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary Latin American literature, magical realism, and stories blending social realities with mythic elements.
Here in one beautiful collector’s edition are Herrera’s 3 era-defining novels: Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Kingdom Cons
Collectible hardback edition of Herrera's three novels including 'Signs Preceding the End of
the World', one of The Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century’
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The Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration, and senseless violence — is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic, and fairy tale. This includes characters such as the singer Lobo in Kingdom Cons who loves the drug lord's own daughter, Makina who crosses borders to find her brother in Signs Preceding the End of the World, and the Redeemer, a hard-boiled hero looking to broker peace between feuding families during a pandemic in The Transmigration of Bodies.
These three novels get to the heart of the matter in a truly original way. They are storytelling that is at once timely and timeless.
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ISBN: 9781913505240
Publisher: And Other Stories
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 September 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: And Other Stories
Contributors:
- Translated by Lisa Dillman
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 404g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award after publishing to great critical acclaim in 2015, when it featured on many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian's Best Fiction and NBC News's Ten Great Latino Books. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies (2016 in English) and Kingdom Cons (2017 in English) were also published to acclaim, including the Dublin Literary Award (former Impac prize) shortlisting of The Transmigration of Bodies. He currently teaches at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans. A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire is his fourth book, and his first of non-fiction.
Lisa Dillman has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Some of her recent translations includeRain Over Madrid,Such Small HandsandThe Right Intentionby Andres Barba and Yuri Herrera's four books. She won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for Herrera'sSigns Preceding the End of the World. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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