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

by Yuri Herrera

Lisa Dillman (Translator)

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781908276728
  • Publish Date 7 July 2016 (first published 5 May 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint And Other Stories
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 112
  • Language Spanish