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"An extraordinary new literary talent."--"The Daily Telegraph""In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary int[...]
"Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin American letters. Her vision and language are precise, and the power of her intellect is in evidence on every page."--Daniel Alarcon"I'm completely captivated by the beauty of the paragraphs, the elegance [...]
A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature[...]
A dazzling follow-up to Faces in the Crowd, this collection of series of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction[...]
Evocative and imaginative, these narrative essays cover a range of themes but share the unique perspective of the author that allows the reader to draw new connections between diverse topics. The hidden tomb of Brodsky in Venice, the elusiveness of the indefinable Portuguese word "saudade," and the [...]