DEATH TAKES ME
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'A labyrinthine masterpiece' New York Times
'A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story' TIME
'Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory' Layla Martinez
beware of me, my love
beware of the silent woman in the desert
These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.
She reports the crime to the police and becomes the first informant in an investigation led by the Detective, who has a newfound obsession with poetry. As the bodies of more men are discovered alongside cryptic lines of verse, it becomes clear that this is only one in a string of crimes - all connected, all with literary clues.
As the Professor becomes wrapped up in the murders, the boundaries of story - and of genre - break down. Can the Detective decipher the meaning of the poems in time to stop the spread of violence?
Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
RIVERA GARZA CRISTINA
Cristina Rivera Garza Autora. Traductora. Crítica. Sus libros más recientes son Nadie me verá llorar Random House, 2024 , edición del 25 aniversario; El invencible verano de Liliana Random House, 2021 , que ganó el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2021 y, por su edición en inglés, el Pulitzer Prize 2024; Autobiografía del algodón Random House, 2020 ; El mal de la taiga Random House, 2019 , cuya traducción al inglés por Suzanne Jill Levine y Aviva Kana recibió el Shirley Jackson Award 2018. En 2020 obtuvo la MacArthur Fellowship; y en 2021, el Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso. Es Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor en la Universidad de Houston, donde fundó el doctorado en Escritura Creativa en español.
