Bøger af 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.

This book imagines a hypothesis: what happened during the year and a half in which Benito Juárez, who would end up being the first indigenous president of Mexico, lived in exile in New Orleans? Accompanied by a small group of political exiles, Juárez landed in 1853 in that stinking city that, located on the banks of a swamp, absorbed them like a sponge. There they surrender to the mud, the jasmine flowers, the music, the strangeness of the language and the unbearable summer, but, above all, they come face to face with the stark reality of the trade in human beings, a market that never ends. stops. They will discover that New Orleans is a hive of heterogeneous identities where imprisoned women are sold in the streets and where capitalism shows its primitive, most grotesque drive.

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'.

Yuri Herrera stands out with his first book, Works of the Kingdom, in which, through the eyes of a composer, he unfolds before the reader a panorama of the palace life of a drug trafficking cartel. Lobo, protagonist and narrator of the novel, is a marginalized being since his birth. He has no education, but he has the talent to turn notable events into epic songs, that is why he is the Artist. One afternoon he meets the man who will transform his life... Thus, reconstructing the inner world of the cartel with a popular language not devoid of lyricism, a sign of his excellent ear, and with a tone that sometimes takes on the registers of a fable. Children and others of Renaissance tragedy, the Artist's words take us into a castle where happiness seems to reign, but hidden intrigues spread. (Eduardo Antonio Parra, Letras Libres)

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.

With language that mixes violence and poetry, this crime novel tells the life of Mexican mobsters and drug dealers and their relationship with the outside world in the midst of an epidemic. The action takes place over the course of a single day, in which a much-desired woman, Thrice Blonde, meets The Rescuer, a man who embodies all fears and contradictions and whose words seem to heal everything. Themes of tragedy, liberation, family, sex, and death intertwine with social elements distinct to life south of the border in this intense story. 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, la familia, el sexo y la muerte se entrelazan con elementos sociales distintos de la vida al sur de la frontera en esta historia intensa.

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.'