Signs Preceding the End of the World: Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award

Name: Signs Preceding the End of the World: Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award
Brand: And Other Stories
SKU: 9781908276421
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By (author): Lisa Dillman Yuri Herrera

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. 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 her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld. See more

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Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
Publication Date: 03 Mar 2015
Publisher: And Other Stories
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781908276421

About Lisa DillmanYuri Herrera

Born in Actopan Mexico in 1970 Yuri Herrera studied in Mexico and Texas and took his PhD at Berkeley. Signs Preceding the End of the World (Senales que precederan al fin del mundo) was shortlisted for the Romulo Gallegos Prize and is being published in several languages. After publishing Signs Preceding the End of the World And Other Stories will publish his two other novels in English starting with The Transmigration of Bodies in 2016. He is currently teaching at the University of Tulane in New Orleans. ------- Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta Georgia where she translates Spanish Catalan and Latin American writers and teaches at Emory University. Her recent translations include The Frost on His Shoulders by Lorenzo Mediano Op Oloop by Juan Filloy (longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award) Me Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman and Rain Over Madrid by Andres Barba. She is obsessed with words running cooking and her dog Maya.