Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A novel
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NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO LITERARIO DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021.Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la diáspora de niños que llegan a la frontera sur del país en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos niños, sentados en el asiento trasero, escuchan las conversaciones e historias de sus padres y a su manera confunden las noticias de la crisis migratoria con el genocidio de los pueblos originarios de Norteamérica. En su imaginación, estas historias se entremezclan, dando lugar a una aventura que es la historia de una familia, un país y un continente. Desierto sonoro, tercera novela de Valeria Luiselli, combina lo mejor de dos grandes tradiciones literarias, la del viaje y la del éxodo: trasiega por el asfalto y atraviesa horizontes desérticos, se detiene en moteles de carretera y penetra en los territorios íntimos de sus personajes, ofreciendo con precisión una serie de instantáneas que retratan las infinitas capas del paisaje geográfico, sonoro, político y espiritual que conforman la realidad contemporánea. Un relato conmovedor y necesario que muestra la fragilidad con que se definen los lazos familiares, indaga en la manera en que documentamos nuestras existencias y pasamos las historias de generación en generación, y se pregunta qué significa ser humano en un mundo cada vez más deshumanizado.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021.ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE WASHINGTON POST• TIME MAGAZINE • NPR • CHICAGO TRIBUNE • GQ • O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE • THE GUARDIAN • VANITY FAIR • THE ATLANTIC • THE WEEK • THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS • LIT HUB • KIRKUS REVIEWS • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY • BOSTON.COM • PUREWOW“An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood. . . . This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington PostIn Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.

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eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
09/23/2021
Language
Spanish; Castilian
ISBN
9780593586037

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*Starred Review* Luiselli's spectacular latest—her first fiction in English—also marks her co-narrator debut. The Mexican-born Luiselli is the dominant voice here; her accent slight, her enunciation careful. Only her collaboration could have enabled the affecting print-to-audio metamorphosis, choosing how photos, drawings, and maps might ‘sound' and creating descriptive copy for 24 unmarked-on-the-page Polaroids at book's end. Part roadtrip (with audiobooks even), part family drama, part testimony, Archive features a woman and her five-year-old daughter, and a man and his 10-year-old son, who have been a family for four years. The man and woman met while documenting NYC's 800-plus spoken languages. They've embarked cross-country to Arizona: the man to research the Apache people's native lands; the woman to search for a friend's missing daughters lost at the border. Seven boxes hold the family's lives—William DeMeritt interrupts briefly to tally the contents of the husband's four. The woman has one, the children another each. Kivlighan de Montebello—whose earnest, elongated vowels turn rock to rawwk, spot to spawwt—embodies the son as he plans a journey-for-two that goes awry. Luiselli's own child Maia Enrigue Luiselli provides soundscapes—more onomatopoeic memories than words—for Box VI. Through a family in crisis, Luiselli lays bare the disconnects of what we hear, what we see, what we understand—and what we can't, or simply won't. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Luiselli, V., & Tavira, M. D. (2021). Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A novel (Unabridged). Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Luiselli, Valeria and Marina De Tavira. 2021. Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Luiselli, Valeria and Marina De Tavira. Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A Novel Books on Tape, 2021.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Luiselli, V. and Tavira, M. D. (2021). Desierto sonoro / lost children archive: a novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Luiselli, Valeria, and Marina De Tavira. Desierto Sonoro / Lost Children Archive: A Novel Unabridged, Books on Tape, 2021.

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