Signs Preceding the End of the World

from TadAD

This was remarkable. It's a story of a young woman crossing from Mexico to find her brother. That's all you need to or should know about the plot. Beyond that I struggle to figure out what to say because it seemed more like feeling the book than reading it. Some words that I can't quite form into...

from bodachliath

A short but powerful and poetic novella. The story tells of a young Mexican woman Makina, who travels across the border illegally in search of her brother. In order to do this she has to deal with various criminal gangs. This is just the start, and she meets a number of challenges, and remains a ...

from bodachliath

A short but powerful and poetic novella. The story tells of a young Mexican woman Makina, who travels across the border illegally in search of her brother. In order to do this she has to deal with various criminal gangs. This is just the start, and she meets a number of challenges, and remains a ...

from Opinionated

Dreamy and hallucinatory, small and perfectly formed. In 106 pages, and 9 chapters Makina descends into either hell or at least some sort of alien underworld. Ostensibly leaving her village to cross the border to search for her lost brother, her journey becomes wider and more revelatory as each c...

from PaulDalton

This was a fascinating book, made up of 9 short chapters describing an illegal crossing of the Mexico-US border and a search for a relative already living in the US, but really much more than that. I read it directly after Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, the great Mexican ur-Novel, and it bears the co...