Valeria Luiselli élabore des romans et des essais qui explorent des thèmes complexes tels que l'identité, la migration et les questions sociétales avec une profonde perspicacité. Son style littéraire se caractérise par sa lyricité et sa profondeur, mêlant souvent imagerie poétique et réflexions philosophiques. Luiselli recherche constamment de nouvelles formes narratives, expérimentant à travers les genres et les médias pour capturer les réalités contemporaines. Ses œuvres résonnent auprès des lecteurs par leur rigueur intellectuelle et leur profondeur émotionnelle.
The narrative explores the stark contrast between the idealized American dream and the harsh realities faced by undocumented children striving for a better life in the United States. Through their struggles and experiences, the book sheds light on the challenges, hopes, and resilience of these young individuals as they navigate a complex and often unforgiving landscape.
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
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.
Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky's Watermark and Benjamin's The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.
The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year
The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature
I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.
Un matrimonio en plena crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache; ella busca documentar la diáspora de niños que llega a la frontera del país en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos niños escuchan las conversaciones e historias de sus padres y a su manera confunden noticias de la crisis migratoria con la historia del genocidio de los pueblos originales de Norteamérica. En la imaginación de los niños, las historias de violencia y de resistencia política colisionan, entrelazándose en una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un país y un continente