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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONWINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A 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
A 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 immigration crisis: 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.
Valeria Luiselli grew up in South Africa after being born in Mexico City in 1983. She was named to the National Book Foundation's list of 5 under 35 in 2014. Faces in the Crowd, her debut novel, received high praise and was awarded the 2015 Art Seidenbaum Prize for Debut Fiction by the Los Angeles Times. Luiselli's fiction and essays have been published in Granta, McSweeney's, and the New York Times, among other media.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525436461 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525436464 |
| Title | Lost Children Archive |
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2020-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2020, Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2021, Winner of Rathbones Folio Prize 2020, Short-listed for Aspen Words Literary Prize 2020, Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2020, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2019 |
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