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«¿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 migratoria de Nueva York, Valeria Luiselli pudo conocer de primera mano el enredado proceso legal del que, literalmente, depende el futuro de los miles de niños centroamericanos que arriesgan la vida para cruzar las fronteras de México y Estados Unidos con tal de escapar del infierno cotidiano en sus respectivos países de origen. Los niños perdidos. (Un ensayo en cuarenta preguntas) es un testimonio brutal, íntimo, escrito con una prosa franca, brillante y lúcida, que observa la realidad de los niños migrantes desde una distancia situada entre el deseo de remediar el desamparo existencial en el que se encuentran sumidos y la impotencia que desata la incapacidad para hacerlo. Y es que, como cuestiona con honestidad la propia Luiselli: «¿Cómo se explica que nunca es la inspiración lo que empuja a nadie a contar una historia, sino, más bien, una combinación de rabia y claridad?». Utilizando como hilo conductor el cuestionario de cuarenta preguntas que sirve de base para el proceso legal que determinará su situación, Luiselli se ha adentrado en la realidad de los niños migrantes para mostrarnos una radiografía tanto de sus vidas pasadas, presentes y futuras, como del laberíntico y despiadado sistema migratorio de Estados Unidos.
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Elvira Liceaga (Narrator)
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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. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, 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. Meanwhile, thousands of children are journeying north, travelling to the US border from Central America and Mexico. A grandmother or aunt has packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean underwear. They have been met by a coyote: a man who speaks to them roughly and frightens them. They cross a river on rubber tubing and walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open container on top. Not all of them will make it to the border. In a breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive intertwines these two journeys to create a masterful novel full of echoes and reflections - a moving, powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Kivlighan De Montebello (Narrator)
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
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 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction between the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants and the reality of racism and fear-both here and back home.
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Laurence Bouvard (Narrator)
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'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.'The ' 'Angry and affecting. ' 'There are many books addressing the plight of refugees. - - is one of the most powerful'
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Laurence Bouvard (Narrator)
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The story of “Highway” Sánchez—bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico. “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.” Gustavo “Highway” Sánchez Sánchez 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, The Story of My Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli’s own literary influences. “The Story of My Teeth explores the meaning of home through the antics of an auctioneer, told in his own hyperbolic fashion, who has decided views on the meaning of value and worth in life and art.”—BBC.com
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Armando Duran, Thom Rivera (Narrator)
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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; his friendships with Nella Larsen and Federico García Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. Valeria Luiselli’s debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. “In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage—and then, in the book’s second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer.”—Francisco Goldman, award-winning author of Say Her Name
Valeria Luiselli (Author), Armando Duran, Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)
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