Death Takes Me
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The dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ New York Times‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ TIME‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ Layla Martinezbeware of me, my lovebeware 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
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The dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025‘A labyrinthine masterpiece’ New York Times‘A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story’ TIME‘Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory’ Layla Martinezbeware of me, my lovebeware 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
FnacCristina Rivera Garza (Auteur) Sarah Booker (Vertaling) Robin Myers (Vertaling) - Verschenen op 26/03/2026 bij Penguin Random House USA
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