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A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025 A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025 ‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ New York Times ‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ TIME ‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ Layla Martinez beware of me, my love beware...
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The dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time
The dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time
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A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025
‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ New York Times
‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ TIME
‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ Layla Martinez
beware of me, my love
beware of the silent woman in the desert…
These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.
She reports the crime to the police and becomes the first informant in an investigation led by the Detective, who has a newfound obsession with poetry. As the bodies of more men are discovered alongside cryptic lines of verse, it becomes clear that this is only one in a string of crimes – all connected, all with literary clues.
As the Professor becomes wrapped up in the murders, the boundaries of story – and of genre – break down. Can the Detective decipher the meaning of the poems in time to stop the spread of violence?
Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781526649454
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Contributors:
- Translated by Robin Myers
- Translated by Sarah Booker
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir and Autobiography and was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the PhD programme in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Also by Cristina Rivera Garza
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