The Transmigration of Bodies - Herrera, Yuri
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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. Yuri Herreraâ s novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Bolaà o and Chandler, is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to the bodies that violence touches.

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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. Yuri Herreraâ s novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Bolaà o and Chandler, is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to the bodies that violence touches.
Autorenporträt
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 News's Ten Great Latino Books. He is currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans. Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Some of her recent translations include Rain Over Madrid; August, October; and Death of a Horse, by Andrés Barba, and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera.