Bøker av Yuri Herrera

In 1853, a man named Benito Juárez disembarks at the fetid port of New Orleans. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous president of Mexico, but now he is anonymous. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings. A magnificent work of speculative history and a love letter to New Orleans.

Fanciful, philosophical science fictions by the writer of Signs Preceding the End of the World, one of The Guardian's '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'.

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists" (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer's work.In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition.In Ten Planets, Herrera's consistent themes-the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms-are explored with evident brilliance and delight.

Mexicos mest interessante forfatter akkurat nå.To kriminelle familier i kamp mot hverandre trenger en konfliktløser. Midt i en redselsfull epidemi som legger byens gater øde, holder familiene hverandres tenåringsbarn fanget. Meglerens instinkter og de tomme gatene forteller ham at det er best å holde seg innendørs, men han drar ut i byens underverden for å sørge for en utveksling av fangene.Dette er en roman som adresserer volden i nåtidens Mexico, med klangbunn fra Romeo og Julie, Roberto Bolaño og Raymond Chandler.]]>

Makina er en ung kvinne med sterk karakter som får i oppgave av moren å finne den for lenge siden emigrerte broren og gi ham en beskjed. Makina legger ut på en reise som går gjennom Mexico og ulovlig inn i USA. Reisen strekker seg over ni etapper og prøvelser og spiller på parallellen til Aztekisk mytologi: For å komme til det underjordiske må de døde gjennom ni nivåer og utfordringer. Gjennom Makinas reise får vi et innblikk i en verden av bakmenn, smuglere, prostituerte, innvandrere og grensepoliti, men også i Makinas eget liv som mellommenneskelig tolk.

Here in one beautiful collector‿s edition are Herrera‿s 3 era-defining novels: Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, and Kingdom Cons

Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction from the bestselling author of Signs Preceding the End of the World

Beats, daggers, girls, and graft: can the Artist sing truth to power where a Mexican drug baron holds court?

Makina knows how to survive in a macho world. Leaving her native Mexico in search of her brother, she's smuggled into the USA bearing two secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld. In this grippingly original novel Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make.

'The things people inscribe on tombstones, even if only with their breath - erasing those things is what the Redeemer's there for.'