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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2015
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores th...



  • A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace.

    Yuri Herrera's novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes ...




  • In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel fro...



  • The Mexico we hear of in the news—the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence—is rich soil for Herrera’s moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic and fairy tale, such...



  • Like Franz Kafka’s The Trial for the post-truth era, at once “surreal, polemical, and fun” (The Telegraph).Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arr...



  • A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and inst...



  • A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the WorldNew Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yuri Herrera has published 8 books.

Yuri Herrera does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Season of the Swamp, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published in March 2015.

No. Yuri Herrera does not write books in series.