{"product_id":"the-transmigration-of-bodies-9781908276728","title":"The Transmigration of Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \"A Silent Fury,\" available Summer 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bola?o and Raymond Chandler, \u003ci\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies - loved, sanctified, lusted after, and defiled - that violent crime has touched \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico, Creative Writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, \u003ci\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction and NBC News's Ten Great Latino Books. He is currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLisa 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. Some of her recent translations include \u003ci\u003eRain Over Madrid; August, October\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, by Andrés Barba, and \u003ci\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e by Yuri Herrera. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725551538450,"sku":"9781908276728","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9614fac-432b-400e-858b-09e2e32f8a07.jpg?v=1734833519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-transmigration-of-bodies-9781908276728","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}