Three Novels

Praise for Yuri Herrera Yuri Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist. His spare, poetic narratives and incomparable prose read like epics compacted into a single perfect punch - they ring your bell, your being, your soul. --Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name Mr. Herrera's writing is poetic and defamiliarizing; translator Lisa Dillman has done well to capture his neologisms, which shift the setting into the surreal. -- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal My favorite of the new Mexican writers. --John Powers, NPR Fresh Air Herrera's metaphors grasp the freedom, and the alarming disorientation, of transition and translation. --Maya Jaggi, The Guardian Yuri Herrera's tiny, beautiful novels each conjure myth and metaphor from a contemporary experience in a precise location, transformed by archaic-colloquial prose. --Lorna Scott-Fox, Times Literary Supplement Playful, prophetic, unnerving books that deserve to be read several times. --Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Praise for The Transmigration of Bodies Herrera's characteristic concision goes a step further here, his skill for expression more impressive in its restraint than its excess. This is a harsh novel, as are those from a borderland besieged by extreme violence, but it's also oddly comforting, in large part due to its exceptional literary quality. --El Pais The Transmigration of Bodies is a magnificent book and its author one of the few indispensable Latin American writers of our times. --Patricio Pron, author of My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain Praise for Kingdom Cons I was captured by Kingdom Cons, by Yuri Herrera. His writing style is like nobody else's, a unique turn of language, a kind of poetic slang... seeming to fall in my hands from an alternative sky. --Patti Smith Razor sharp and inimitable--crafted in a way that resembles fable--Kingdom Cons is set in the wake of chaos around the border: the border between two particular countries, yes, but also between worlds, between possibilities, and between ways of seeing. --John Ganiard, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor MI Herrera's ability to capture the mind's eye and weave an indelible image and story is uncanny. This, his third novel, might be his best yet. In Kingdom Cons Herrera delivers a stunning example of how art can dissolve boundaries and speak truth to power. --Matt Keliher, Subtext Books, St Paul, MN Kingdom Cons is revelatory. I think Yuri Herrera has created his own genre. The mix of high and low culture, the argot of the streets with the poetic narrative--it's something else. Mexico as a hallucination. --Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX