Lost Children Archive // Valeria Luiselli [engelska]

”The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli's hands, electric, elastic, alluring, new”
Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

”Brilliantly intricate and constantly surprising”
James Wood, The New Yorker

A road novel about a family driving from New York to the Arizona desert, the father recording Apache history, the mother recording the voices of migrant children held at the border. The marriage is coming apart as they drive.

Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican writer who worked as a court interpreter for child migrants. This was her first novel written in English, and it won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2020 and the Dublin Literary Award in 2021.

For readers who like documentary fiction, archives and fragments. What readers come back for is the shift when one of the children takes over the telling.

”By its feverish climax, Luiselli isn't just giving us a story, she's showing us new ways to see.”
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

”A rollicking tale that contains within it an extremely disciplined exercise in political empathy”
Lidija Haas, Harper's