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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 southwest, 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.

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.

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...

«¿Por qué viniste a los Estados Unidos? Ésa es la primera pregunta del cuestionario de admisión para los niños indocumentados que cruzan solos la frontera». A partir de su trabajo como traductora para la defensa de niños migrantes en la corte...

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US. Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016...

Valeria Luiselli, la galardonada escritora mexicana, describe el paso del tiempo en su departamento en Nueva York durante la época del confinamiento ocasionado por la pandemia de COVID-19. En este ensayo, Valeria nos comparte un retrato de los momentos que comparte con su hija, su sobrina y la perrita Lola, desde un lugar profundamente íntimo.

A New York una famiglia chiude casa e si mette in macchina verso il sudovest del Paese. Il padre vuole raggiungere i monti dove vivevano gli apache, gli ultimi ad arrendersi, la madre vuole documentare l'emergenza dei bambini migranti. Con i due figli attraversano deserti e montagne, fermandosi in diner e motel lungo la strada. Nello stesso momento, migliaia di bambini sono in marcia verso il nord, senza mappe né passaporti, solo un numero di telefono cucito nel colletto. Non tutti riusciranno ad arrivare.

‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’ COLM TÓIBÍN ‘Inventive, brilliant, playful … dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and...

Carretera no siempre fue este showman eminente. Antes de convertirse en subastador ejerció como vigilante en una fábrica de jugos durante muchos años, hasta que el ataque de pánico de una compañera de trabajo cambió su vida de manera irremediable. En el...

Papeles falsos, primer libro de Valeria Luiselli, está compuesto por una serie de ensayos narrativos de temas diversos, donde la constante es el registro de la original mirada de la autora, siempre presta a encontrar detalles o conexiones entre ideas de muy diverso orden, ecos de un...

¿Cuántas vidas y cuántas muertes son posibles en la existencia de una misma persona? Los ingrávidos es una novela sobre existencias fantasmales; una evocación, a la vez melancólica y llena de humor, sobre la imposibilidad del encuentro amoroso y el...