Kingdom Cons
Description
From the author of "A Silent Fury," available Summer 2020.
About this Author
Lisa Dillman: Lisa Dillman is a US translator based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she translates Spanish, Catalan and Latin American writers and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. She won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award forSigns Preceding the End of the World.
Reviews
"Mesmerising & stunningly crafted, 5 stars!" Rebecca Choudhury, Waterstones BirminghamâEUR¨
"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
"Yuri Herrera is a master of the literary arts. His 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. InKingdom 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 Consis 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
"Short, suspenseful . . . outlandish and heartbreaking." John Williams,New York Times
"Herrera packs his slim book with the sex, booze and nihilism of a better Simenon novella." Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal
"The Transmigration of Bodies takes the conventions of gumshoe fiction and transfers them to a charnel-house world that makes nonsense of the genre's habitual moral opposites."Bookforum
"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
"Darkly satisfying." James Lasdun,The Guardian
"Yuri Herrera combines a dreamlike setting with vigorous style." Anthony Cummins,Times Literary Supplement
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