Yuri Herrera - Böcker

On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania 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...

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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 ...

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A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become ...

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A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become ...

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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 ou...

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On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania 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 t...

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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...

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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 ou...

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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 noir romance, this prize-winning novel from ...

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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 th...

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The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Borges's Fic...

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New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican presiden...

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El Rey ist der König. Er herrscht über die Grenze Mexikos zur USA, ihm gehören hier die Menschen, die Lÿnder, einfach alles. Er gibt Arbeit und Brot, er schenkt den Tod. Auÿer seinen Drogen gibt es nur Sand und Hitze. Lobo ist ein Sÿnger, er...

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»Ein Meisterwerk ? Unter den Schriftstellern meiner Generation ist Herrera der, den ich am meisten bewundere.«Daniel Alarcón, Autor von ?Lost City Radio??Der König, die Sonne, der Tod? versammelt drei Romane des Mexikaners Yuri Herrera, die ih...

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Los personajes de Diez planetas habitan un futuro inimaginable que, no obstante, nos invita a dudar de las herramientas con que calibramos nuestro mundo mas proximo: un terricola exiliado en un improbable rincon de la galaxia hace un descubrimient...

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"e;Yuri Herrera destaca con su primer libro, Trabajos del reino, en el que, a travs de la mirada de un compositor de corridos, despliega ante el lector un panorama de la 'vida palaciega' de un crtel del narcotrfico. Lobo, protagonist...

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Senales que precederan al fin del mundo es, sin duda, una de las novelas mas singulares de entre todas las que se han escrito en espanol en este cambio de siglo. Y tambien una de las mas bellas y precisas. Como ya suceda en su anterior novela: Tra...

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Una epidemia paraliza el pais pero propicia, a su vez, el encuentro entre una mujer deseada, La Tres Veces Rubia, y un hombre que desea, El Alfaqueque. Las palabras de este parecen conseguir, calmar o sanarlo todo: producen fascinacion. Y hay algo...

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A las siete de la manana del 10 de marzo de 1920 se declaro un incendio en la mina El Bordo, en el estado mexicano de Hidalgo. Unas horas mas tarde se dio por terminada la evacuacion y se cerro el tiro de la mina para favorecer la extincion del in...

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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, Juá...

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Este libro inventa una hipótesis: ¿qué sucedió durante el año y medio en que Benito Juárez, quien acabarÿa siendo el primer presidente indÿgena de México, vivió desterrado en Nueva Orleans? Es en ese «hueco marcado por el punto y aparte...

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"Lobo, the protagonist of this ... novel about life on the border between Mexico and the United States, has no education to speak of but possesses an amazing talent for converting any notable event into an epic ballad. When the local drug kin...

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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, i...

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En estas cronicas aparece el Chile golpeado de ayer, ese pais que paso de la utopia al golpe; de la dictadura a la transicion. Osorno, Valdivia, Temuco, Santiago, La Serena son ciudades que la escritora argentina Maria Moreno recorre un poco antes...

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