Books by Valeria Luiselli

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

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.

I Mexico City tænker en ung kvinde over sin fortid. Fanget i et hus med to børn og et ægteskab hun hverken kan opgive eller overgive sig helt til, beslutter hun at skrive en bog om tiden hvor hun arbejdede på et lille forlag i New York; om fremmede der blev hendes elskere og om digtere, der engang boede i hendes nabolag. En særlig rolle spiller Gilberto Owen: en mexicansk digter fra 1920’ernes Harlem. Owen sniger sig ind i fortællingen som et spøgelse i subwayen. Den kvindelige fortællers interesse i Owen bliver en besættelse, hendes liv begynder at tage form efter hans, og langsomt opløses de to i hinandens verdener. De vægtløse er en original fortælling om ungdom, kærlighed og spøgelser, om hvordan vi forsvinder ind i deres verden og de lydløst forsvinder ind i vores. Romanen leger med vores forestillinger om virkelighed, men på en anden måde end den magiske realisme som vi kender fra de ældre latinamerikanske forfattere. Et litterært puslespil der efterlader læseren forpustet, klar til at begynde forfra igen! Valeria Luiselli er en af Mexicos mest talentfulde unge forfattere. Hun er udkommet i en lang række lande. De vægtløse er hendes første roman på dansk.

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