{"product_id":"la-muerte-me-da-death-takes-me-9786073867566","title":"La Muerte Me Da \/ La Muerte Me Lleva","description":"\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, Marie Claire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.» \u003cb\u003e—Katie Kitamura, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e«Beware of me, my love \/ beware of the silent woman in the desert». This verse by Alejandra Pizarnik is written in nail polish on an alley wall, next to the \u003cb\u003emutilated corpse of a man\u003c\/b\u003e. The first to discover it is Professor \u003cb\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/b\u003e. After notifying the police, she is interrogated by a homicide detective who asks her to examine a photograph of the \u003cb\u003ecrime scene\u003c\/b\u003e. Immediately recognizing the verse, the professor becomes a key informant in the case. Soon, new victims appear alongside \u003cb\u003eother poems\u003c\/b\u003e, pointing to a \u003cb\u003eserial killer\u003c\/b\u003e. The detective begins a list of suspects, while the professor receives the first sinister note from someone who \u003cb\u003eis stalking them\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 2007, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a visionary and thrilling novel. Written by the \u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize winner\u003c\/b\u003e and one of the most relevant literary voices in the Hispanic world, Cristina Rivera Garza, this story challenges the traditional tropes of the \u003cb\u003edetective novel\u003c\/b\u003e and, like a mirror, reflects unsettling questions about desire and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew York Times Notable Book of 2025 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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 \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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16597717\"\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Literatura Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786073867566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 6073867565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e Spanish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-OCC\"\u003eBody, Mind \u0026amp; Spirit\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-OCC019000\"\u003eInspiration \u0026amp; Personal Growth\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SEL\"\u003eSelf-Help\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SEL027000\"\u003ePersonal Growth | Success\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/b\u003e. Autora. Traductora. Crítica. Sus libros más recientes son Autobiografía del algodón (Literatura Random House, 2020) y Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020, traducido por Sarah Booker, finalista del NBCC Award). En 2020 obtuvo la MacArthur Fellowship. Profesora distinguida y fundadora del doctorado en Escritura Creativa en español en la Universidad de Houston.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Literatura Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46579212026031,"sku":"9786073867566","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_2e537c7a-9c22-483f-80ad-983f823b912c.jpg?v=1771607314","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/la-muerte-me-da-death-takes-me-9786073867566","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}