The Transmigration of Bodies: Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award

ISBN-13: 9781908276728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 112 str.

Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman

Opis

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 defiled - that violent crime has touched

O autorze

Yuri Herrera, geboren 1970 in Actopán / Mexico. Studierte an der UNAM in Mexico D.F. und an der University of Texas, El Paso, promoviert in Berkeley. Herausgeber der Zeitschrift El perro (Der Hund). Bisher erschienen zwei Romane. Sein erster Roman wurde 2003 mit dem mexikanisch-amerikanischen Preis "Border of Words", 2009 mit dem Preis "Otras Voces, Otros ámbitos" ausgezeichnet.