Valeria Luiselli
Auteur de Lost Children Archive
A propos de l'auteur
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. A novelist (Faces in the Crowd) and essayist (Sidewalks), he work has been the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award.
Œuvres de Valeria Luiselli
Beyond Fridolatry (Arts Essay [pp. 30-33] in The Guardian. Review. Saturday 9 June 2018) 1 exemplaire
Desierto Sonido 1 exemplaire
Deserto Sonoro 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Thirteen Crime Stories From Latin America (2014) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Translator/Contributor — 62 exemplaires
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (2016) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1983-08-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Mexico
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Mexico
- Lieu de naissance
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Costa Rica
South Africa
South Korea
India
Spain (tout afficher 8)
France
Mexico City, Mexico - Études
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
Columbia University - Professions
- author
- Relations
- Enrigue, Alvaro (husband)
- Prix et distinctions
- National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2014)
MacArthur Fellowship (2019)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
To Read (1)
Facebook list (1)
Translingualism (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 3,180
- Popularité
- #8,035
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 141
- ISBN
- 116
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 6
I really wanted to like this book. It deals with important social issues...
1. The immigration crisis & its effects on families
2. Family dissolution and its effects on children
3. The ecfects of parents self absorption on children
The parents in this book were so focused on helping others and documenting the wrongs of society that they were blind to the pain they inflicted on the people closest to them, their own "lost children".
It was a very dense text in which the author inserted related stories and quotes. This took away from the flow of the story.
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