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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

Foreword by Jenny Minton Quigley, series editorIntroduction by Valeria Luiselli, guest editor"Screen Time," by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell"The Wolves of Circassia," by Daniel Mason "Mercedes's Special Talent," by Tere Dávila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed "Rainbows," by Joseph O'Neill "A Way with Bea," by Shanteka Sigers "Seams," by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft "The Little Widow from the Capital," by Yohanca Delgado "Lemonade," by Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston "Breastmilk," by 'Pemi Aguda "The Old Man of Kusumpur," by Amar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta "Where They Always Meet," by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich "Fish Stories," by Janika Oza "Horse Soup," by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton "Clean Teen," by Francisco González "Dengue Boy," by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer "Zikora," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Apples," by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson "Warp and Weft," by David Ryan "Face Time," by Lorrie Moore "An Unlucky Man," by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Arkiv over bortkomne barn av Valeria Luiselli handler om en familie i New York som pakker bilen og drar ut på langtur. De reiser sørover på leting etter det området apasjene en gang kalte sitt hjem. -Hvorfor apasjer? Spør den tiårige sønnen. Fordi de engang var det siste av noe, svarer faren. På veien er familien sammen hele tiden: spiser, sover, forteller vitser, ler, krangler. Men dette skal bli den siste turen de noensinne tar sammen.I Mellom-Amerika og Mexico befinner tusenvis av barn seg på sin egen reise, en reise nordover mot grensen til USA. En bestemor eller en tante har pakket en sekk til hvert barn, lagt ved en bibel, en leke, litt rent undertøy. Barna reiser med en Coyote: en mann som snakker strengt til dem og som de er redd for. De krysser en elv på gummidekk og går i dagevis, sparer så mye de kan på vann og mat. Så klatrer de opp på taket på et tog og reisen fortsetter. Ikke alle vil komme frem til grensen.Arkiv over bortkomne barn vever sammen disse to reisene og skaper en mesterlig roman med mange lag - en bevegende, brennende historie om hva det vil si å være menneske i en umenneskelig verden.

De vektløse er en nydelig og eksentrisk roman fra Mexicos unge stjerneforfatter Valeria Luiselli.Midt i Mexico City begynner en ung mor å skrive om sin tid i New York og hvor opptatt hun var av den obskure poeten Gilberto Owen. Samtidig får vi Gilbertos historie, men smått om senn begynner grensene mellom disse historiene på bli utvisket. Hun tar for eksempel toget gjennom Harlem, mens han på sin side 50 år tidligere, til stadighet er plaget av synes av en ung kvinne som han skimter i vinduet på togkupéene som raser forbi.

The last of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's "la Caixa" Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly-commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today.

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American 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.

A novel about the creative progress and the cult of literary celebrity that follows one man with a mouth full of horrors and a life full of stories

A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction