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Three Novels : Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies - Yuri Herrera

Three Novels

Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies

By: Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator)

Hardcover | 25 May 2023

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This collectible edition gathers in one beautifully crafted volume the three novels that have made Yuri Herreraâs reputation as one of the best and most revolutionary writers of the new millennium, adding a new preface from the author as well as notes from his Best Translated Book Award-winning translator Lisa Dillman.

The Mexico we hear about in the newsâ"with its vicious drug cartels, desperate migrants, and senseless violenceâ"could only ever be one small part of the story. Hailing from a place beyond the stereotypes, behind the hardships of daily life, Yuri Herreraâs characters are castaways from the realms of myth, the epic, the fairy tale. There is the singer Lobo in Kingdom Cons, who loves a drug lordâs daughter; Makina, who crosses borders to find her brother in Signs Preceding the End of the World; and the Redeemer, a hard-boiled hero looking to broker peace between feuding families during a pandemic in The Transmigration of Bodies.

Industry Reviews
'Language itself seems to be invested with a strange demiurgic force. Herrera's style - both precise and elusive, specific and elliptical - is uncannily well suited to depict the in-between state his characters inhabit.' Tony Wood, LRB ---- 'Herrera shuns proper names of people and places: Mexico City is the "Big Chilango," characters bear names such as the Artist, the Witch, and Mr. Q. His ghostly landscapes are reminiscent of Rulfo's in the iconic novel Pedro Paramo, but his characters are even more ethereal. Many are up to no good, delivering packages whose contents we can only guess at, trying to avoid falling into vast sinkholes and the jails of La Migra. The bad guys speak as if in a Peckinpah film. [...] The [three novels are] even more powerful read together. A welcome gathering of centrifugal works by one of Mexico's most accomplished contemporary writers.' Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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