![]() ![]() It’s thin as pulp but still diverting fun. Herrera strips Romeo & Juliet to its essence, sets it against a plague that symbolizes Mexico’s recent violent history, and peppers the prose with the ridiculous (e.g. As the tension rises, the Redeemer shops for the prophylactics Three Times Blonde insists on and tries to convince the families into a nonviolent swap of kin. With the help of his pal the Neyanderthal and Fonseca’s daughter, the Unruly, the Redeemer discovers that the Fonsecas are holding Baby Girl, Castro’s daughter, who may be falling prey to the plague. After spending the night with his neighbor, Three Times Blonde, the Redeemer gets a call from Dolphin, who claims the Castro family kidnapped his son, Romeo Fonseca. Earlier this year Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World won the Best Translated Book Award. A mysterious epidemic empties city streets and two warring families each hold in their possession a corpse belonging to the other. ![]() ![]() In Herrera’s slim, amusing book (after Signs Preceding the End of the World), a plague has turned an unnamed city into an abandoned ruin, but that won’t stop the Redeemer from brokering peace between two prominent families about to go to war over their children. The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (La Transmigracin de los cuerpos, 2013) translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (2016) And Other Stories (2016) 101 pp. The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman. ![]()
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