Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family's road trip across America--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. English-language edition: The Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli / 9780525520610 (Knopf, 2/12/2019)] 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, El archivo de los ni os perdidos 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.
Synopsis
Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos peque os desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: l est tras los rastros de la ltima banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la di spora de ni os que llegan a la frontera sur del pa s en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos ni os, 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 Norteam rica. En su imaginaci n, estas historias se entremezclan, dando lugar a una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un pa s y un continente.
Desierto sonoro, tercera novela de Valeria Luiselli, combina lo mejor de dos grandes tradiciones literarias, la del viaje y la del xodo: trasiega por el asfalto y atraviesa horizontes des rticos, se detiene en moteles de carretera y penetra en los territorios ntimos de sus personajes, ofreciendo con precisi n una serie de instant neas que retratan las infinitas capas del paisaje geogr fico, sonoro, pol tico y espiritual que conforman la realidad contempor nea. Un relato conmovedor y necesario que muestra la fragilidad con que se definen los lazos familiares, indaga en la manera en que documentamos nuestras existencias y pasamos las historias de generaci n en generaci n, y se pregunta qu significa ser humano en un mundo cada vez m s deshumanizado.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE WASHINGTON POST- TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - GQ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - THE GUARDIAN - VANITY FAIR - THE ATLANTIC - THE WEEK - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - BOSTON.COM - PUREWOW
"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 Post
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.
Synopsis
Libro ganador del premio literario Dublin Literary Award 2021 Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos peque os desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: l est tras los rastros de la ltima banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la di spora de ni os que llegan a la frontera sur del pa s en busca de asilo.
Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos ni os, 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 Norteam rica. En su imaginaci n, estas historias se entremezclan, dando lugar a una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un pa s y un continente.
Desierto sonoro, tercera novela de Valeria Luiselli, combina lo mejor de dos grandes tradiciones literarias, la del viaje y la del xodo: trasiega por el asfalto y atraviesa horizontes des rticos, se detiene en moteles de carretera y penetra en los territorios ntimos de sus personajes, ofreciendo con precisi n una serie de instant neas que retratan las infinitas capas del paisaje geogr fico, sonoro, pol tico y espiritual que conforman la realidad contempor nea. Un relato conmovedor y necesario que muestra la fragilidad con que se definen los lazos familiares, indaga en la manera en que documentamos nuestras existencias y pasamos las historias de generaci n en generaci n, y se pregunta qu significa ser humano en un mundo cada vez m s deshumanizado.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE WASHINGTON POST- TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - GQ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - THE GUARDIAN - VANITY FAIR - THE ATLANTIC - THE WEEK - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - BOSTON.COM - PUREWOW
"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 Post
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.
Synopsis
NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO LITERARIO DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021. Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos peque os desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: l est tras los rastros de la ltima banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la di spora de ni os que llegan a la frontera sur del pa s en busca de asilo.
Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos ni os, 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 Norteam rica. En su imaginaci n, estas historias se entremezclan, dando lugar a una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un pa s y un continente.
Desierto sonoro, tercera novela de Valeria Luiselli, combina lo mejor de dos grandes tradiciones literarias, la del viaje y la del xodo: trasiega por el asfalto y atraviesa horizontes des rticos, se detiene en moteles de carretera y penetra en los territorios ntimos de sus personajes, ofreciendo con precisi n una serie de instant neas que retratan las infinitas capas del paisaje geogr fico, sonoro, pol tico y espiritual que conforman la realidad contempor nea. Un relato conmovedor y necesario que muestra la fragilidad con que se definen los lazos familiares, indaga en la manera en que documentamos nuestras existencias y pasamos las historias de generaci n en generaci n, y se pregunta qu significa ser humano en un mundo cada vez m s deshumanizado.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021.
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE WASHINGTON POST- TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - GQ - O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - THE GUARDIAN - VANITY FAIR - THE ATLANTIC - THE WEEK - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - LIT HUB - KIRKUS REVIEWS - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY - BOSTON.COM - PUREWOW
"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 Post
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.