Signs Preceding the End of the World

Yuri Herrera explores intersections and translations that people make with their ideas and words, especially when you do not look back, when you move from one country to another.

Crossing this lone field is a young woman, Makina, who knows how to survive in a violent and masculine world. I was looking for her brother and left her life in Mexico and she was smuggled to me ... more

At the beginning of the sign before the end of the world, Makina sighed with peace of mind no longer falling into meditation; at the end she was taken to the basement to start the next stage of her journey . A figurative journey of the hero. Herrera's novel ends beyond the new borders; the stimulation of the book lasts. Other stories are planning to publish translations of the other two novels of Herrera; we have to wait for the next time, but we can still read the logo again .

The symbol before the world ended is that the first part of Herrera's novel was translated into English, which is his third novel. When translating trilogy to English, the order of books is reversed from beginning to end. Herrera's first Spanish novel, Trabajos del Reino, will be finally published in English as Kingdom Cons next year. This seems to represent a special publishing choice first, but it may be a good thing for our gringos that we have to read Herrera's trilogy in reverse. Publishing the last referee's logo first in English may be meaningful for publishing; it is the most mature, most convincing, unique and completely three realizations. However, this reversal is also consistent with the spirit of Herrera's work. Mining from above is done in each of his novels, starting from the surface and drilling the infinite depth below.

The signs before the end of the world is one of the most eye-catching novels published in Spanish in the past decade. Yuri Herrera simply does not write down the boundary between Mexico and the United States of America and people crossing it. Especially when you do not look back, when you move from one country to another, you will explore the intersections and translations people make with their thoughts and words. Crossing this lone field is a young woman, Makina, who knows how to survive in a violent and masculine world. She left her life in Mexico looking for her brother smuggled to the United States with a secret message from her mother and a secret message from the underworld in Mexico.