The transmigration of bodies

by Yuri Herrera;Lisa Dillman

7th July, 2016

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award

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 Bolaño 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.

Yuri Herrera's first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian in 2019 as one of 'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century'. Herrera has gone on to become one of the best-loved, and best-selling, Mexican authors published in translation. A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire was his fourth book, and his first of non-fiction. He lives in New Orleans.

Details & Specs

Author: Yuri Herrera Lisa Dillman

Publisher: And Other Stories

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781908276728

Publication Date: 7th July, 2016

Pages: 101

Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm

Availability: Available, usually dispatched within 3 days

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