Shortlisted for the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary AwardA 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. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the citys underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herreras novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes ofRomeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolao and Raymond Chandler,The Transmigration of Bodiesis a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies loved, sanctified, lusted after, and defiled that violent crime has touched.