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Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

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Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera

Narrator Patricia Rodriguez

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Length 2 hours 18 minutes

Language English

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About the author

Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award

Featured in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels 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.

(P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Limited, Translation (c) Lisa Dillman 2015

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied in Mexico and El Paso and took his PhD at Berkeley. Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize and is being published in several languages. Herrera is currently teaching at the University of Tulane in New Orleans.