Signs Preceding the End of the World

Signs Preceding the End of the World

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.

In this grippingly original novel Yuri Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make — with their feet, in their minds, and in their language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back.

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, studied in Mexico and El Paso and took his PhD at Berkeley. was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize and is being published in several languages. After publishing , And Other Stories will publish his two other novels in English, starting with in 2016. He is currently teaching at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans.

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