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Lost Children Archive (Hardcover, Edition)
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Lost Children Archive (Hardcover, Edition)
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List price R539
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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 of
the brightest young stars in world literature Suppose you and Pa
were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then? A family in
New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a
father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria,
the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours
through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they're
hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells
surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh. The little boy
educates them all and corrects them when they're wrong. The mother
and the father are barely speaking to each other. Meanwhile,
thousands of children are journeying north, travelling to the US
border from Central America and Mexico. A grandmother or aunt has
packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean
underwear. They have been met by a coyote: a man who speaks to them
roughly and frightens them. They cross a river on rubber tubing and
walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they
climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open
container on top. Not all of them will make it to the border. In a
breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive
intertwines these two journeys to create a masterful novel full of
echoes and reflections - a moving, powerful, urgent story about
what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
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