{"product_id":"ten-planets-stories-9781644452233","title":"Ten Planets: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by \"one of Mexico's finest novelists\" (\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's \u003ci\u003eFictions \u003c\/i\u003eand Italo Calvino's \u003ci\u003eCosmicomics\u003c\/i\u003e, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTen Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Ten Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, Herrera's consistent themes--the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms--are explored with evident brilliance and delight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Actopan, Mexico, \u003cb\u003eYuri Herrera \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three novels, including \u003ci\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of the\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e's \"100 Best Books of the 21st Century\" and won the Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at Tulane University in New Orleans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Dillman\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she translates Spanish-language fiction and teaches at Emory University. Her recent translations include National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch \u003c\/i\u003eby Pilar Quintana and \u003ci\u003eA Silent Fury \u003c\/i\u003eby Yuri Herrera.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612005044498,"sku":"9781644452233","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5e506e09-b0da-4a56-97da-f264b0d504fc.jpg?v=1732368262","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-planets-stories-9781644452233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}