Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy
Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent." The
Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman,
this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel
creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it
quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve
endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student
years to early motherhood and a loving marriage and then, in the
book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the
fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it
has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably
portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original
writer." Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is
writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In
Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto
Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen
recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in
the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the
arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and
necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut
novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a
novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of
obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the
concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy
contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea
of time and identity with grace and intuition." Publishers Weekly
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