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    The Transmigration of Bodies
    The Transmigration of Bodies
    The Transmigration of Bodies
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Transmigration of Bodies

    Written by Yuri Herrera

    Narrated by Armando Durán

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    Yuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolaño, and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies—loved, sanctified, lusted after, and defiled—that violent crime has touched.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Publishing
    TranslatorLisa Dillman
    Release dateMar 27, 2021
    ISBN9781664782679
    The Transmigration of Bodies
    Author

    Yuri Herrera

    Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.

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    • 3/5

      Nov 26, 2024

      This is a futuristic, dystopian noir set during a plague amidst fighting gangs. There are elements of greek tragedy, revenge and redemption in what must all serve as an allegory for modern-day Mexico.
      The characters are shadowy and just sketched out enough for our imaginations to fill out the rest.
    • 2/5

      Dec 28, 2020

      i think i'm missing something
    • 1/5

      Mar 18, 2019

      Glowing reviews, 101 pages ... what's not to like? Had to put it down after 40... dry ... couldn't connect ...read last page ... Huh...? Glad I didn't hold out. My apologies to the series. Really like the idea of an indie publisher supported by readers ... but ...
    • 4/5

      Sep 19, 2017

      Excellent noir. It didn't have quite the impact upon me that Signs Preceding the End of the World did but it's definitely a good read.
    • 3/5

      Sep 6, 2016

      Like so many other books with cultish status, there is promise here, even lots of promise. But at the end of the day it is simply a story written pretentiously (or translated pretentiously...the challenge of translations). I will read more by Yuri Herrera but I'm not prepared to rave about him yet.
    • 4/5

      Jun 28, 2016

      The book is set in a city where there has been an epidemic. But there don't seem to be any dead bodies from it. Also none of the main character's associates or friends have been affected. The plot involves Redeemer facilitating an exchange of bodies between two crime families. He also investigates how the deaths came about. But the book is really about Redeemer's interior life and how he tries to live in a broken violent place.