Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera
Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera
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Signs Preceding the End of the World

Author: Yuri Herrera

Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/26/2020


Synopsis

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

About Yuri Herrera

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on February 01, 2025

'You are a door, not the one who walks through.' The setting sun, ‘like a giant pool of drying blood’, casts lengthy human shaped shadows along the mountainside that bridges the past to the future, the old to the new, the dying to the living. Behold the great transmigration of souls, the hopeful and......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on August 15, 2021

What could possibly indicate a definite end? The line between differences getting more and more obscure? A dissolution of meanings, perceived or constructed? A merging with the foreign other? An odyssey through the different circles of hell - which in the case of this book, is an arid, hostile lands......more

Goodreads review by MJ on March 26, 2015

Sometimes us readers find ourselves drowning in superlatives, in the fawning pith clipped to the front and back and inside pages of new literature, forcing us to retreat into the hallowed recesses of the Buried Book Club, sniffing for unpraised truffles amid the chaff, and in most cases these superl......more