Bøger af Valeria Luiselli

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

Foreword by Jenny Minton Quigley, series editorIntroduction by Valeria Luiselli, guest editor"Screen Time," by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell"The Wolves of Circassia," by Daniel Mason "Mercedes's Special Talent," by Tere Dávila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed "Rainbows," by Joseph O'Neill "A Way with Bea," by Shanteka Sigers "Seams," by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft "The Little Widow from the Capital," by Yohanca Delgado "Lemonade," by Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston "Breastmilk," by 'Pemi Aguda "The Old Man of Kusumpur," by Amar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta "Where They Always Meet," by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich "Fish Stories," by Janika Oza "Horse Soup," by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton "Clean Teen," by Francisco González "Dengue Boy," by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer "Zikora," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Apples," by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson "Warp and Weft," by David Ryan "Face Time," by Lorrie Moore "An Unlucky Man," by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

"Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeänos desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: âel estâa tras los rastros de la âultima banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la diâaspora de niänos que llegan a la frontera sur del paâis en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos niänos, sentados en el asiento trasero, escuchan las conversaciones e historias de sus padres y a su manera confunden las noticias de la crisis migratoria con el genocidio de los pueblos originarios de Norteamâerica. En su imaginación, estas historias se entremezclan, dando lugar a una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un paâis y un continente"--

The last of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's "la Caixa" Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly-commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTFINALIST FOR THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly; TIME; NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; GQ; The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Dallas Morning News; and the New York Public Library';The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli's hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new.' --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times"e;Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book."e; --Tommy OrangeFrom the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home.Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father.In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "e;immigration crisis"e;: thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way.As the family drives--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure--both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.

I Mexico City tænker en ung kvinde over sin fortid. Fanget i et hus med to børn og et ægteskab hun hverken kan opgive eller overgive sig helt til, beslutter hun at skrive en bog om tiden hvor hun arbejdede på et lille forlag i New York; om fremmede der blev hendes elskere og om digtere, der engang boede i hendes nabolag. En særlig rolle spiller Gilberto Owen: en mexicansk digter fra 1920’ernes Harlem. Owen sniger sig ind i fortællingen som et spøgelse i subwayen. Den kvindelige fortællers interesse i Owen bliver en besættelse, hendes liv begynder at tage form efter hans, og langsomt opløses de to i hinandens verdener. De vægtløse er en original fortælling om ungdom, kærlighed og spøgelser, om hvordan vi forsvinder ind i deres verden og de lydløst forsvinder ind i vores. Romanen leger med vores forestillinger om virkelighed, men på en anden måde end den magiske realisme som vi kender fra de ældre latinamerikanske forfattere. Et litterært puslespil der efterlader læseren forpustet, klar til at begynde forfra igen! Valeria Luiselli er en af Mexicos mest talentfulde unge forfattere. Hun er udkommet i en lang række lande. De vægtløse er hendes første roman på dansk.

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.

A novel about the creative progress and the cult of literary celebrity that follows one man with a mouth full of horrors and a life full of stories

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 non-fiction