β Scribed by Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Two astonishing novellas, by βMexicoβs greatest novelistβ, in one volume.
Hilarious and horrifying, Yuri Herreraβs The Transmigration of Bodies is a gritty, feverish novella, written in dazzling prose that is both bawdy and poetic. 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 cityβs underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage. Lust and crime and a lack of condoms all feature in this brilliant novella about living in a city filled with the dead, and where no one can distinguish between the guilty and the innocent.
A response to the violence of contemporary Mexico, with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto BolaΓ±o and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noir tragedy and a tribute to those bodiesβloved,...
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