{"product_id":"death-takes-me-paperback","title":"Death Takes Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSarah Booker\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLiliana's Invincible Summer, \u003c\/i\u003ea dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.\"--Katie Kitamura, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, Marie Claire, \u003c\/i\u003eDenver Public Library\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA city is always a cemetery.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: \"Beware of me, my love \/ beware of the silent woman in the desert.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly obsessed with poetry and trailed by a long list of failures. But what has the professor really seen? As the bodies of more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally written in Spanish, where the word \"victim\" is always feminine, \u003ci\u003e Death Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling masterpiece of literary fiction that flips the traditional crime narrative of gendered violence on its head. As sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims, it unfolds with the charged logic of a dream, moving from the police station to the professor's classroom and through the slippery worlds of Latin American poetry and art in an imaginative exploration of the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina Rivera Garza \u003c\/b\u003eis the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Taiga Syndrome, The Iliac Crest\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eLiliana's Invincible Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Booker\u003c\/b\u003e is a teacher and literary translator. Her translations include novels by Mónica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Gabriela Ponce. She is also an associate editor with \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Andrés Neuman's \u003ci\u003eBariloche\u003c\/i\u003e, Claudia Peña Claros's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, Isabel Zapata's \u003ci\u003eIn Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliana Hernández-Pachón's \u003ci\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/i\u003e, and Cristina Rivera Garza's \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.01 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52009599009069,"sku":"9780593737026","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/death-takes-me-paperback-4305081.webp?v=1777444567","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/death-takes-me-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}