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Un père et une mère, écrivains tous deux. Avec leurs jeunes enfants issus d'unions passées, ils prennent la route pour le sud des États-Unis. Lui entreprend un travail sur les Apaches. Elle, tient à constater la réalité de ce qu'on appelle à tort la « crise migratoire » touchant les enfants sud-américains. Dans le coffre de la voiture, sept boîtes remplies de documents amassés au cours de leur périple. Témoignages de ces enfants perdus voyageant sur les toits des trains, qui sont une tentative pour documenter la vie, retenir l'empreinte d'une existence, dépeindre notre présent.
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Certains ont la chance, d'autres le charisme. Moi, Gustavo Sánchez dit Grandroute, j'ai les deux ! Meilleur commissaire-priseur du monde, je vais réaliser mon plus gros coup. Vendre mes dents aux enchères en les faisant passer pour celles de figures illustres comme Platon, Rousseau ou Virginia Woolf ! Le jour de gloire arrivé, mon rejeton perdu de vue est dans la salle... Que peut-il bien mijoter ?
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then? A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together. In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.
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Une jeune femme vit à Mexico dans une vieille maison un peu délabrée et pleine de recoins avec son mari architecte et deux enfants en bas âge. Entre les coupures de courant, les blattes de Madagascar, les T-Rex en plastique démantibulés et les chaussettes sales qui ont perdu leur moitié, elle écrit. Des textes courts, des fragments, car elle manque d'air. Et un roman silencieux pour ne pas réveiller les enfants.
Elle écrit sur une autre vie, dans une autre ville. Des bribes de la vie de la jeune femme libre qu'elle était, qui portait des minijupes et un manteau rouge, lisait des poèmes, fréquentait des amis loufoques, n'aimait pas dormir dans son propre lit, cherchait dans toutes les bibliothèques de New York le nouveau Bolaño que l'éditeur qui l'employait rêvait de publier. Un jour elle trouve l'oeuvre de Gilberto Owen, un obscur poète mexicain qui habita Harlem à la fin des années 1920, et lui invente la vie de bohème d'un jeune homme maigre et fervent qui traduit Dickinson, enveloppé dans un peignoir gris en soie, fréquente García Lorca et écoute Duke Ellington dans des bars mal famés de Manhattan. Mais Owen a aussi une autre vie, moins fantasmagorique, celle d'un homme radicalement seul, introverti, abandonné, qui peu à peu répond à son propre fantôme et aux fantômes successifs de sa "créatrice". Toutes ces ombres se croisent dans le métro : ses accélérations soudaines, ses zones obscures, un lieu hors du temps et de l'espace pour les êtres sans gravité.
Un zest de mélancolie, beaucoup d'humour, une écriture agile et lumineuse pour une question extravagante et grave : combien de vies et combien de morts possibles dans une seule existence ?
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Dès leur entrée aux États-Unis, les enfants migrants sans papiers venant d'Amérique du sud subissent un interrogatoire composé de quarante questions. Le but ? Leur permettre de raconter leur histoire, et pouvoir en juger la véracité.
Valeria Luiselli a été interprète pour les tribunaux américains. Elle a été confrontée à la brutalité des politiques migratoires et à leurs angles morts : comment dire la terreur qu'on fuit, et celle qu'on rencontre en chemin ? Comment mettre en ordre par le récit, des vies rendues illisibles par la violence du monde ?
Raconte-moi la fin est un essai d'une grande sensibilité qui rend aux migrations leur dimension humaine.
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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 Luisellis 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 familys 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.
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TELL ME HOW IT ENDS - AN ESSAY IN FORTY QUESTIONS
Valeria Luiselli
- Fourth Estate
- 5 Octobre 2017
- 9780008271923
A powerful polemic about the US-Mexico border and what is happening to the tens of thousands of 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, alone and undocumented, from Mexico and Central America. Tens of thousands have been detained at the border. What will happen to them? Where are the parents? And why have they undertaken a terrifying, life-threatening journey to enter the United States?''Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer at the federal immigration court in New York City, translating for unaccompanied migrant children. Out of her work has come this book - a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant global phenomenon of our time.
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Echoes from the borderlands
Valeria Luiselli, Ricardo Giraldo, Leo Heiblum
- Dap Artbook
- Dia Art Foundation
- 18 Février 2025
- 9780944521625
Chronicling a new sound art project on the US-Mexico border, led by the bestselling author of Lost Children Archive and The Story of My Teeth
This volume documents a 24-hour, multilayered sound work, led by award-winning Mexican American author Valeria Luiselli. Echoes from the Borderlands maps the US-Mexico border from the Pacific Ocean at San Diego and Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico. This book, which focuses on the first 12 hours and accompanies an exhibition at Dia Chelsea, resuscitates the voices and visions of the largely female, Indigenous, Brown and Black peoples rendered absent in mainstream narratives about the border. While Echoes from the Borderlands addresses various mechanisms of extraction and violence, the devastating effects of industrialization as varied as mining and nuclear testing, and other forms of violence against bodies and the land, it also vividly recreates the everyday activity of plant life and human and non-human animals. Returning to the scene of her internationally acclaimed novel Lost Children Archive, Luiselli, along with her collaborators, Ricardo Giraldo and Leo Heiblum, invites readers into this dynamic counter narrative through remixing archival texts from advertisements to public speeches, interviews with local denizens and contemporary thinkers such as Fred Moten, as well as more imaginative responses to these contested lands, including a chorus of four narratresses who provide poignant and incisive commentary along the way.
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author and the 2019 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Her previous books include Lost Children Archive (2019), Tell Me How It Ends (2017), The Story of My Teeth (2013) and Sidewalks (2013). She is a professor at Bard College.
Ricardo Giraldo currently directs the new podcast division of La Corriente del Golfo, a production company owned by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal.
Leonardo Heiblum is an award-winning Mexican composer and producer, and a longtime collaborator with Philip Glass and Patti Smith. -
LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE - BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST 2019
Valeria Luiselli
- Vintage Usa
- 12 Février 2019
- 9781524711504
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE The novel truly becomes novel again in Luisellis hands--electric, elastic, alluring, new. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book." --Tommy Orange Named a "Best Book of 2019 So Far" by Entertainment Weekly , Vanity Fair, Vulture , and TIME From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, 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.
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La caixa collection valeria luiselli under bamby s eyes
Valeria Luiselli
- Whitechapel Gallery
- 27 Février 2020
- 9780854882762
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES 2022 - THE O. HENRY PRIZE WINNERS
Valeria (E Luiselli
- Random House Us
- 9 Septembre 2022
- 9780593467541
VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of two essay collections and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and The Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, she has also been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and three times for the Kirkus Prize. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.br>br> JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.