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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences." --The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
In Valeria Luiselli's fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet.
Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family's crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way.
A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive--a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
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 |
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| 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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