Death Takes Me

Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza is a formally daring, emotionally raw novel from one of Mexico’s most celebrated and provocative writers — the winner of the International Booker Prize. Set in a Mexican university campus rocked by a series of murders, the novel follows a criminologist and a poet as they investigate crimes that seem to follow the logic of poetry rather than conventional motive. Rivera Garza’s prose is elliptical, sensory, and resistant to easy resolution — a deliberate challenge to the conventions of crime fiction and the violence that underlies Mexican society. Published by Bloomsbury, Death Takes Me is a book that refuses to comfort and insists on confronting the ways language, power, and bodily harm intersect. Essential for readers of literary fiction and anyone interested in contemporary Latin American writing at its most ambitious.