{"title":"Yuri Herrera","description":"\u003cp\u003eYuri Herrera's novels traverse the boundaries of General Fiction and Science \u0026amp; Nature, offering readers a unique blend of poetic narrative and sharp social insight. His works, including \u003cem\u003eKingdom Cons\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, explore themes of identity, power, and transformation within vividly imagined worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHerrera's writing is marked by a lyrical style and philosophical depth, inviting readers to contemplate the human condition through nuanced storytelling. His books provide a compelling experience for those drawn to literary fiction that resonates beyond the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kingdom-cons-by-yuri-herrera-9781925603019","title":"Kingdom Cons","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart surreal fable and part crime romance, \u003cem\u003eKingdom Cons\u003c\/em\u003e by Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed as 'Mexico's greatest novelist', Yuri Herrera has followed up \u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e with an extraordinary story about passion and violence, about the vital role of the Artist in our society, and about the strangeness of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531791749356,"sku":"9781925603019","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16355523482873.jpg?v=1749285990"},{"product_id":"the-transmigration-of-bodies-and-signs-preceding-the-end-of-the-world-by-yuri-herrera-9781925498240","title":"The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilarious and horrifying, Yuri Herrera's \u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e is a gritty, feverish novella, written in dazzling prose that is both bawdy and poetic. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLust and crime and a lack of condoms all feature in this brilliant novella about living in a city filled with the dead, where no one can distinguish between the guilty and the innocent. A response to the violence of contemporary Mexico, with echoes of \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e, Roberto Bolano, and Raymond Chandler, \u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e is a noir tragedy and a tribute to those bodies—loved, sanctified, and defiled—that violent crime has touched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece, haunting and arresting, spare and poetic—a condensed epic about immigration. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraversing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46672413524204,"sku":"9781925498240","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15307733482873.jpg?v=1752847290"},{"product_id":"three-novels-by-yuri-herrera-9781913505240","title":"Three Novels","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration, and senseless violence — is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic, and fairy tale. This includes characters such as the singer Lobo in \u003cem\u003eKingdom Cons\u003c\/em\u003e who loves the drug lord's own daughter, Makina who crosses borders to find her brother in \u003cem\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Redeemer, a hard-boiled hero looking to broker peace between feuding families during a pandemic in \u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese three novels get to the heart of the matter in a truly original way. 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