Valeria Luiselli
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English
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"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria:...
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an...
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English
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American Book Award Winner: A "moving, intimate" account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review).
Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented...
Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty...
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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"A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an 'inventory of echoes' from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes...
9) Roma
Series
Criterion collection ; 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"In Mexico City's upscale Colonia Roma district, a quiet but swift change is on its way. Pivoting around Dr Antonio's middle-bourgeoisie family, the lives of two women--the devoted live-in maid and housekeeper of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her academic employer, Sofía--become inextricably intertwined, as a seemingly ordinary business trip to Quebec paves the way for a bitter heartbreak. Over a span of one long year--from the quadrennial 1970s World...
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ebooks Patagonia
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
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Voces -30, nueva narrativa latinoamericana es una antología de cuentos que reúne a algunos de los autores que están escribiendo y publicando hoy, desde México hasta la Patagonia. Son menores de 30 años, han ganado premios y tienen más de una publicación. Sus estilos e imaginarios sorprenden por tener un espíritu fresco e íntimo. Aquí se cruzan el campo y la ciudad, la familia y la juventud, los fantasmas del pasado y el futuro. A su vez,
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DelMonico Books/D.A.P
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood surveys how artists have reflected on and contributed to notions of childhood from the early 20th century to the present. The works offer distinctive viewpoints and experiences, revealing how time and place, economics and race, and representation and aesthetics fundamentally shape how we experience and understand early development. The catalog underscores that while there is no single, uniform idea of childhood,...
