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(0)Yuri Herrera
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for...
3) Kingdom cons
Author
Language
English
Description
In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.
Author
Series
Largo recorrido volume 40
Publisher
Periférica
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Con un lenguaje que mezcla la violencia y la poesía, esta novela negra narra la vida de los mafiosos y los narcos mexicanos y su relación con el mundo exterior en medio de una epidemia. La acción acontece durante una sola jornada, en la que una mujer deseada, La Tres Veces Rubia, se encuentra con El Alfaqueque, un hombre quien encarna todos los miedos y contradicciones y cuyas palabras parecen sanar todo. Los temas de la tragedia, la redención,...
Author
Language
English
Description
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis-the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company-may have committed murder.
The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained...
Author
Publisher
Periférica
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1a. edición.
Language
Español
Description
Una apasionante reflexión de la vida en la frontera de los Estados Unidos y México, esta novela combina sensibilidades modernas con la mitología precolombina mientras relata la historia de Makina, una joven temperamental y libre que busca a su hermano desaparecido. A lo largo de su camino, Makina tiene que depender de su ingenio para completar nueve etapas mitológicas en un mundo hostil y peligroso. Con referencias míticas provenientes tanto...
7) Three novels
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Special ominbus edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Mexico we hear of in the news-the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence-is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic and fairy tale, such as the singer Lobo in Kingdom Cons who loves the drug lord's own 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...