The Transmigration of Bodies

by Yuri Herrera

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Series: Mexican Trilogy (3)

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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… (more)

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Everything I wrote down while reading this book:

hell yes.
"As if there's nothing to be learned from defeat." (

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Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

A Mexican noir(ish) novella set in the time of pandemic. A day in the life of a fixer who is tasked with negotiating the exchange of two youths each captured by rival criminal gang lords.

The writing (via translation) is tremendous. This author is clearly influenced by Cormac McCarthy. Recommend. (

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ErrantRuminant | Mar 11, 2022 |

i think i'm missing something (

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stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |

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 ... (

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danhammang | Mar 18, 2019 |

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. (

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TadAD | Sep 19, 2017 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Herrera, Yuri	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Dillman, Lisa	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Three Novels by Yuri Herrera (indirect)

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For my mother, Irma Eugenia Gutiérrez Mejía

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A scurvy thirst awoke him and he got up to get a glass of water, but the tap was dry and all that trickled out was a thin stream of dank air.

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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

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