Signs Preceding The End Of The World: Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award - Tapa blanda

Herrera,Yuri

 
9781908276421: Signs Preceding The End Of The World: Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award
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ISBN 10: 1908276428 ISBN 13: 9781908276421
Editorial: And Other Stories, 2015

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca de los autores

Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Her recent translations include The Bitch and Abyss by Pilar Quintana.

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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.

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Editorial
And Other Stories
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1908276428
ISBN 13 
9781908276421
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1
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1
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