Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera

"Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist." —Francisco Goldman

"The relationship between art and violence is at the core of Herrera’s slim yet powerful novel about the various members of a drug-trafficking ring in an unnamed territory allegorically aligned with northern Mexico...The novel is a powerful and memorable meditation on the social and economic value of art in a world ruled by the pursuit of power."--Publisher's Weekly

‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell, and heaven, and back again. He must have once been a girl, an animal, a rock, a boy, and a woman. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding.’ Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth