Signs Preceding the End of the World
- Authors
- Herrera, Yuri
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Tags
- borderlands , contemporary fiction , coyotaje , discrimination , rite of passage , gender , juan rulfo , la transmigración de los cuerpos , immigration , spanish , usa , violence , people-smuggling , brother , literary fiction , novel , trafficking , undocumented workers , rio grande , frontiers , trabajos del reino , underworld , mexico , border crossing , yuri herrera , translation , translated fiction , kafka , jobs in the us , kafkaesque , the transmigration of bodies , italo calvino , makina , señales que precederán al fin del mundo , latin america , jesse ball , coyote , roberto bolaño , contemporary , illegal immigrants , signs preceding the end of the world , machismo
- Date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.22 MB
- Lang
- en
Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction
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.