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WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 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. This will be the
last journey they ever take together. In Central America and
Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own,
travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it
there.
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The Story of My Teeth (Paperback)
Valeria Luiselli; Translated by Christina MacSweeney
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Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning
to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few
skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin
after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can
stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And,
of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other
people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very
discreet. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the
famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world,
amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own
specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of
pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds,
culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth
of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia
Woolf et al. Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness,
Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable
journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and
creation, and the points at which they overlap.
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Faces in the Crowd (Paperback)
Valeria Luiselli; Translated by Christina MacSweeney
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In New Mexico, she is a young mother. Stuck in a marriage that's
deteriorating, unable to shake the feeling that her house and
belongings are trapping her, she is increasingly drawn to reflect
on who she was before: when she worked as an editor in New York,
rarely in her own apartment, always seeking new places to call
home. As she folds time, seeking to inhabit her past, she begins to
encounter ghosts. Time and again, a solitary man appears - Gilberto
Owen - a lesser known poet of the Harlem Renaissance, and an
obsession of her youth. He is living on the edge of Harlem's social
scene at the beginning of the Great Depression, anticipating death,
and tracing spectral visions of his own - among them, a young
woman, travelling alone, on the subway. Valeria Luiselli's daring
debut, Faces in the Crowd is a meditation on time, hauntings, and
the elusive, transitory identities we assume.
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 'We are
driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the
waves of children arriving, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and
Central America. Tens of thousands have been detained at the
border. What will happen to them? Where are the parents? And why
have they undertaken a terrifying, life-threatening journey to
enter the United States?' Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer at
the federal immigration court in New York City, translating for
unaccompanied migrant children. Out of her work has come this book
- a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and
compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant
global phenomenon of our time. 'So true and moving that it filled
me with hopeless hope' Ali Smith 'Harrowing, intimate, quietly
brilliant' New York Times 'The first must-read book of the Trump
era' Texas Observer 'Angry and affecting. A slight book with a big
impact' Financial Times 'There are many books addressing the plight
of refugees. Tell Me How It Ends - lucid, plain-speaking and
authoritative - is one of the most powerful' Big Issue
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Sidewalks (Paperback)
Valeria Luiselli; Translated by Christina MacSweeney
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Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative
essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our
lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood,
revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a foreign
city, Valeria Luiselli plots a unique and exhilarating course that
traces unexpected pathways between diverse ideas and reveals the
world from a fresh perspective. Here, we follow Luiselli as she
cycles around Mexico City, shares a cigarette with the night porter
in her Harlem apartment, and hunts down a poet's tomb in Venice.
Each location sparks Luiselli's nimble curiosity and prompts
imaginative reflections and inventions on topics as varied as the
fluidity of identity, the elusiveness of words that can't be
translated, the competing methods of arranging a bookcase, and the
way that city-dwellers evade eye-contact with their neighbours
while spying on their lives. Sidewalks cements Luiselli's
reputation as one of Latin America's most original, smart and
exciting new literary voices.
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Faces in the Crowd (Paperback)
Valeria Luiselli; Translated by Christina MacSweeney
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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
A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both
overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or
fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in
New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to
translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure
Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly
presence haunts her in the city s subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying
in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing,
recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella
Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico Garcia Lorca; and the young
woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the
voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one
single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.
Valeria Luiselli s debut signals the arrival of a major
international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in
contemporary fiction."
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