Season of the Swamp

In 1853, a man named Benito Juárez disembarks at the fetid port of New Orleans. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous president of Mexico, but now he is anonymous. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings. A magnificent work of speculative history and a love letter to New Orleans.

About the author

Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Her recent translations include The Bitch and Abyss by Pilar Quintana.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri Herrera
• Assisted by: Lisa Dillman (Translation), Dillman Lisa (Translation)
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781916751101
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-10-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, General & world history, History of the Americas, FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution, FICTION / World Literature / Mexico, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino / General