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Valeria Luiselli
A moving, powerful and urgent novel about a family - and a country - in crisis.
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Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky’s Watermark and Benjamin’s The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.
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Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing. (Alma Guillermoprieto)
The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one…
Originalmente publicado en inglaes como Lost children archive por Knopf… en 2019 –Copyright page.
Shifting between two distinctivevoices, this novel is alternately narrated bya modern-day woman living in Mexico and by poet Gilberto Owen while on the verge of death. While the womanrecalls her…
Valeria Luiselli, PhD (Columbia University)
Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneerthe story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
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McSweeney’s three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with 65th issue, a high-concept themed issue, guest-edited by award-winner and bestselling writer, Valeria Luiselli.
Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is…
Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing (Alma Guillermoprieto).
Valeria Luiselli,Jenny Minton Quigley
The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature
A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli’s equal virtuosity as a writer of…
Valeria Luiselli’s crystalline debut: a surreal, enchanting novel about passion, identity, and the ghosts we carry.
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Silja Helber
A transcontinental and transdisciplinary debate is currently taking place about the concept of world literature in which female writers have so far played a marginal role in spite of their…
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Translation of: La historia de mis dientes.
Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer–the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
How artists from Paul Klee and Mierle Laderman Ukeles to Faith Ringgold and Deborah Roberts have explored childhood themes of innocence, spontaneity and storytelling
Artists have long been inspired by…
