Death Takes Me - Rivera Garza, Cristina
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'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…mehr

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'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? A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025 Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
Autorenporträt
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.
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This detective novel radically scrambles what we think of, and how we relate to, the genre ... The case [is] "full of psychological nooks and crannies. Of poetic shadows. Gender traps. Metaphors. Metonyms." That also describes Rivera Garza's exceptional style, and the deeply rewarding experience of reading Death Takes Me. The novel is dense and elliptical, a dreamscape with a powerful undertow ... [A] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece