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12%OFFYuri Herrera - The Transmigration of Bodies - 9781908276728 - V9781908276728
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The Transmigration of Bodies

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Description for The Transmigration of Bodies Paperback. 'The things people inscribe on tombstones, even if only with their breath - erasing those things is what the Redeemer's there for.' Translator(s): Dillman, Lisa. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; FA; FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolano and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies - loved, sanctified, lusted after, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276728
SKU
V9781908276728
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About Yuri Herrera
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, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian's Best Fiction and NBC ... Read more

Reviews for The Transmigration of Bodies
'The Transmigration of Bodies represents a highpoint in the genre of the novel. Herrera has been slowly building an oeuvre constructed on a singular conception of the world, in which literature's past and present form a continuum. Reading him gives one the sense of diving into his library, a place that is unashamed of belonging to a tradition and being ... Read more

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