Biographie de Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction ; the essay collection Sidewalks ; and Tell Me How It Ends, an essay about the situation faced by children arriving at the US-Mexico border without papers. Lost Children Archive is her first novel written in English.
The everlasting process of disintegration
'Lost Children Archive' is a road trip of a most haunting and melancholic kind. There is a mixture of idealism and futility in a New York couple's voyage towards America's southern border undertaken for divergent reasons which will ultimately undermine their relationship. The interplay between their seemingly programmed separation and their children's unique sense of wonder evokes the ticking of an infernal time bomb set to reveal irreconciliable truths which threaten to tear them asunder.... a pathetic counterpoint with the fate of Mexican refugees unaware of the dangers facing them as they head northward towards refuge in America. Vital reading for dangerous times.