The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera
The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera
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The Transmigration of Bodies

Author: Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman

Narrator: Armando Durán

Unabridged: 3 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2021

Synopsis

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 out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolaño, and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies—loved, sanctified, lusted after, and defiled—that violent crime has touched.

About Yuri Herrera

Yuri Herrera, born in Actopan, Mexico, is an acclaimed and award-winning author. His Signs Preceding the End of the World won the Best Translated Book Award in 2016 and was included in many best books of the year lists, including the London Guardian’s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books. His first novel, Kingdom Cons, won the 2004 Premio Binacional de Novela Joven and, when published in Spain won the Premio Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos, being considered the best work of fiction published in Spain by a jury of 100 people, including editors, journalists and cultural critics. He studied politics in Mexico, creative writing in El Paso, and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans.

About Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman is a translator from Spanish and Catalan and a lecturer at Emory University.

About Armando Durán

Armando Duran has appeared in films, television, and regional theaters throughout the West Coast. For the last decade he has been a member of the repertory acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A native Californian, he divides his time between Los Angeles and Ashland, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

‘These days we walk past a body on the street, and we have to stop pretending we can’t see it.’ A plague has overtaken an unnamed city when The Redeemer--a hero with a hardness to rival any hard-boiled noir protagonist coupled with a philosophical soft-spot for humanity--is called to broker the excha......more

Goodreads review by julieta

Me encantó. Una especie de fábula que se roza sin querer con la realidad ahora mismo. Hay una epidemia que está acabando con todo, y dos familias que pelean. Un lugar en donde el eterno macho está presente, puede ser el norte, puede ser el sur, en todo caso es un pueblo. Alfaqueque, el personaje pri......more

Quotes

“In Herrera’s slim, amusing book, [he] strips Romeo & Juliet to its essence and sets it against a plague that symbolizes Mexico’s recent violent history.” Publishers Weekly

“The Transmigration of Bodies represents a highpoint in the genre of the novel.” Álvaro Enrigue, author of Sudden Death

“A magnificent book and its author one of the few indispensable Latin American writers of our times.” Patricio Pron, author of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

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