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7120769Death Takes Mehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/death-takes-me-9781526649447/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6671120/image.jpg?v=638738200729700000282332MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p>Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers</p><p><strong>A labyrinthine masterpiece <em>New York Times</em></strong><br /><strong><strong><strong>A</strong> <strong>subversive</strong> <strong>twist on the traditional serial killer story</strong></strong> <em>TIME</em></strong><br /><strong>Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory Layla Martinez</strong></p><p><em><strong>A city is always a cemetery.</strong></em></p><p>When a professor named Cristina stumbles upon the corpse of a man in<br />a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.</p><p>After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the main informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. As the bodies of more men are found, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the stream of violence spreading throughout the city.</p><p>A dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, <em>Death Takes Me</em> explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of gender and violence, death and desire.</p><p><strong>A <em>TIME</em> MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025</strong></p>...6786987Death Takes Me282332https://www.gandhi.com.mx/death-takes-me-9781526649447/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6671120/image.jpg?v=638738200729700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781526649447_W3siaWQiOiIwMDhmMWNhMC04NTQyLTRlZGQtYWM3YS1iOTFmNmU3MDg4MGUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ5LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI3NSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDVUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjp0cnVlfV0=9781526649447_<p><em><strong>A city is always a cemetery.</strong></em></p><p>When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.</p><p>After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.</p><p>From one of Mexicos greatest living writers, <em>Death Takes Me</em> is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.</p><p><strong>PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA</strong></p><p>Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language Lina Merwane</p><p>A masterful storyteller Jennifer Clement</p>...(*_*)9781526649447_<p><em><strong>A city is always a cemetery.</strong></em></p><p>When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.</p><p>After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.</p><p>From one of Mexicos greatest living writers, <em>Death Takes Me</em> is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.</p><p><strong>PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA</strong></p><p>Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language Lina Meruane</p><p>A masterful storyteller Jennifer Clement</p>...(*_*)9781526649447_<p>Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers</p><p><em><strong>A city is always a cemetery.</strong></em></p><p>When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.</p><p>After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.</p><p>From one of Mexicos greatest living writers, <em>Death Takes Me</em> is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.</p><p><strong>PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA</strong></p><p>Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language Lina Meruane</p><p>A masterful storyteller Jennifer Clement</p>...9781526649447_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_9781526649447_9781526649447Cristina RiveraInglésMéxico2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:002025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing