Three Novels

‘Yuri Herrera is Mexico’s greatest novelist. His spare, poetic narratives and incomparable prose read like epics compacted into a single perfect punch—they ring your bell, your being, your soul.’ Francisco Goldman ‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell, and heaven, and back again. He must have once been a girl, an animal, a rock, a boy, and a woman. He must have been many different men. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding and the brutal clarity with which he illuminates the human soul for us. Nothing else can account for his ability to strip conventional language of its tedium and offer us back our own world, which we discover, with him, as if for the first time.’ Valeria Luiselli ‘My favorite of the new Mexican writers.’ John Powers, NPR Fresh Air ‘Playful, prophetic, unnerving books that deserve to be read several times.’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ‘Herrera’s metaphors grasp the freedom, and the alarming disorientation, of transition and translation.’ Maya Jaggi, The Guardian 'His writing style is like nobody else’s, a unique turn of language, a kind of poetic slang . . . seeming to fall in my hands from an alternative sky.' Patti Smith