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"Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the US carrying a pair of secret messages -- one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld"--Provided by publisher.

Una apasionante reflexin̤ de la vida en la frontera de los Estados Unidos y Mx̌ico, esta novela combina sensibilidades modernas con la mitologa̕ precolombina mientras relata la historia de Makina, una joven temperamental y libre que busca a su hermano desaparecido. A lo largo de su camino, Makina tiene que depender de su ingenio para completar nueve etapas mitolg̤icas en un mundo hostil y peligroso. Con referencias mt̕icas provenientes tanto de la tradicin̤ occidental como de la indg̕ena, esta historia presenta una lucha familiarla de los inmigrantes indocumentadosen una manera imaginativa y n͠ica, pero nunca comprometa la humanidad fundamental y conmovedora de su heron̕a.