Signs Preceding the End of the World (9 page)
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Authors: Yuri Herrera
Tags: #Contemporary Fiction, #Literary Fiction, #Novel, #Translation, #Translated fiction, #Rite of passage, #Spanish, #Mexico, #Latin America, #USA, #Rio Grande, #Yuri Herrera, #Juan Rulfo, #Roberto Bolaño, #Jesse Ball, #Italo Calvino, #Kafka, #Kafkaesque, #Makina, #Underworld, #People-smuggling, #trafficking, #Violence, #Illegal Immigrants, #Immigration, #Undocumented workers, #Machismo, #Gender, #Coyote, #Coyotaje, #Discrimination, #Brother, #Borderlands, #Border crossing, #Frontiers, #Jobs in the US, #Trabajos del Reino, #Señales que precederán al fin del mundo, #Signs Preceding the End of the World, #La transmigración de los cuerpos, #The Transmigration of Bodies
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Oleg Zaionchkovsky,
Happiness is Possible
translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
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Carlos Gamerro,
The Islands
translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett
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Christoph Simon,
Zbinden’s Progress
translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin
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Helen DeWitt,
Lightning Rods
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Deborah Levy,
Black Vodka: ten stories
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Oleg Pavlov,
Captain of the Steppe
translated from the Russian by Ian Appleby
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Rodrigo de Souza Leão,
All Dogs are Blue
translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry & Stefan Tobler
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Juan Pablo Villalobos,
Quesadillas
translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
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Iosi Havilio,
Paradises
translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler
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Ivan Vladislavić,
Double Negative
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Benjamin Lytal,
A Map of Tulsa
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Ivan Vladislavić,
The Restless Supermarket
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Elvira Dones,
Sworn Virgin
translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford
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Oleg Pavlov,
The Matiushin Case
translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
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Paulo Scott,
Nowhere People
translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
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Deborah Levy,
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
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Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel,
By Night the Mountain Burns
translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar
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SJ Naudé,
The Alphabet of Birds
translated from the Afrikaans by the author
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Niyati Keni,
Esperanza Street
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Yuri Herrera,
Signs Preceding the End of the World
translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
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Carlos Gamerro,
The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón
translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett
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Anne Cuneo,
Tregian’s Ground
translated from the French by Roland Glasser and Louise Rogers Lalaurie
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Angela Readman,
Don’t Try This at Home
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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. And Other Stories will publish Herrera’s two other novels in English, starting with
The Transmigration of Bodies
in 2016.
Herrera is currently teaching at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans.
Lisa Dillman
is based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she translates Spanish, Catalan and Latin American writers and teaches at Emory University. Her recent translations include
The Frost on His Shoulders
by Lorenzo Mediano,
Op Oloop
by Juan Filloy (longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award),
Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
by Sabina Berman and
Rain Over Madrid
by Andrés Barba. She is obsessed with words, running, cooking and her dog, Maya.
Title:
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Author: Yuri Herrera
Translator: Lisa Dillman
Editor: Lorna Scott Fox
Copy-editor: Briony Everroad
Proofreader: Alex Billington
Typesetting, eBook design & production:
Tetragon, London
Cover Design: Hannah Naughton
Table of Contents
3 • The Place Where the Hills Meet
5 • The Place Where the Wind Cuts Like a Knife
6 • The Place Where Flags Wave
7 • The Place Where People’s Hearts Are Eaten
8 • The Snake that Lies in Wait
9 • The Obsidian Place with No Windows or Holes for the Smoke