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
Luiselli Valeria Books
Valeria Luiselli crafts novels and essays that probe complex themes of identity, migration, and societal issues with profound insight. Her literary style is characterized by lyricism and depth, often weaving in poetic imagery and philosophical reflections. Luiselli constantly seeks new forms of storytelling, experimenting across genres and media to capture contemporary realities. Her works resonate with readers for their intellectual rigor and emotional depth.






In the Eye of Bambi
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
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.
The Best Short Stories 2022
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year
Lost Children Archive
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Faces in the Crowd
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature
The Story of My Teeth
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.
La couleur du lait
- 175 pages
- 7 hours of reading
En cette année 1831, Mary, une fille de 15 ans entame le tragique récit de sa courte existence : un père brutal, une mère insensible et sévère, en bref, une vie de misère dans la campagne anglaise du Dorset. Simple et franche, lucide et impitoyable, elle raconte comment, un été, sa vie a basculé lorsqu'on l'a envoyée travailler chez le pasteur Graham, afin de servir et tenir compagnie à son épouse, femme fragile et pleine de douceur. Elle apprend avec elle la bienveillance, et découvre avec le pasteur les richesses de la lecture et de l'écriture.. mais aussi l'obéissance, l'avilissement et l'humiliation. Finalement, l'apprentissage prodigué ne lui servira qu'à écrire noir sur blanc sa fatale destinée. Et son implacable confession.
Falsche Papiere
Essays
»Falsche Papiere« hat die junge mexikanische Autorin Valeria Luiselli ihre erzählerischen Essays genannt, eine persönliche, originelle, spielerische Welterkundung. Das alltägliche Leben, das diese Stadtnomadin mit uns durchstreift, ist bevölkert von den Geistern der Literaturgeschichte, von ihren speziellen literarischen Hausgeistern, und so wird das Flanieren mit Luiselli zu einem großen intellektuellen und sprachlichen Vergnügen. Das versteckte Grab Brodskys in Venedig, die so unbestimmbare wie schwer fassbare portugiesische saudade, der Horror der kleinen Landkarten auf den Monitoren bei Transatlantikflügen, wenn man das Bild des Flugzeugs, in dem man sitzt, auf der blauen Leere des abgebildeten Ozeans Millimeter für Millimeter vorrücken sieht, das Einräumen von Büchern nach einem Umzug oder die Begegnungen mit alten Damen, einem Museumswärter, Sicherheitsbeamten – aus seltsamen Alltagserlebnissen schafft Valeria Luiselli einen Kosmos, in dem die Literatur so gegenwärtig ist wie unsere Lebensverhältnisse, unsere Herkunft und die Zukunft.
Frida
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.


