Signs Preceding the End of the World
- Author Yuri Herrera
- Narrator Patricia Rodriguez
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 2 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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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
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
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