Yuri Herrera, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. & Other Stories
(www.andotherstories.org), $13.95 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-908276-42-1
Herrera’s first book to be translated into English tells the story of a border-crossing from Mexico into the U.S. Makina is a young woman asked by her mother to deliver an envelope to her brother, who crossed over into the U.S. three years earlier...
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Yuri Herrera, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. And Other Stories, $14.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-908276-72-8
In Herrera’s slim, amusing book (after Signs Preceding the End of the World), a plague has turned an unnamed city into an abandoned ruin, but that won’t stop the Redeemer from brokering peace between two prominent families about to go to war over...
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Edited by Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia. And Other Stories, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-908276-78-0
This diverse collection presents a dozen stories, half of which are translations. In his concise introduction, Salman Rushdie links Cervantes and Shakespeare for believing that literature need not conform to a category; rather, “it can be many...
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Yuri Herrera, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Graywolf, $26 (160p) ISBN 978-1-64445-307-0
In this mesmerizing picaresque, Herrera (Ten Planets) speculates about the 18 months future Mexican president Benito Juárez spent in New Orleans during his exile following a dispute with then-president Santa Anna. Upon his arrival in the U.S. in...
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Yuri Herrera, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Graywolf, $15 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-64445-223-3
Herrera (Signs Preceding the Ends of the World) spins a wondrous collection of science fiction and parables about the desire for intimacy and expression. The spare opener, “The Science of Extinction,” features a man alone in an increasingly “rewildin
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Yuri Herrera, trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. And Other Stories (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-908276-92-6
The relationship between art and violence is at the core of Herrera’s (The Transmigration of Bodies) slim yet powerful novel about the various members of a drug-trafficking ring in an unnamed territory allegorically aligned with northern Mexico. A...
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