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Luiselli Valeria

    Valeria Luiselli je známa svojimi bystrými románmi a esejmi, ktoré sa ponárajú do komplexných tém identity, migrácie a sociálnych otázok. Jej literárny štýl sa vyznačuje lyričnosťou a hĺbkou, často sa prelína s poetickými obrazmi a filozofickými reflexiami. Luiselli neustále hľadá nové formy rozprávania, experimentuje so žánrami a médiami, aby mohla čo najvernejšie zachytiť súčasnú realitu. Jej diela oslovujú čitateľov svojou intelektuálnou náročnosťou a emocionálnou rezonanciou.

    The Story of My Teeth
    Faces in the Crowd
    Lost Children Archive
    The Best Short Stories 2022
    In the Eye of Bambi
    Tell Me How it Ends
    • The Best Short Stories 2022

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year

      The Best Short Stories 20222022
      3,8
    • In the Eye of Bambi

      • 112 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania

      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.

      In the Eye of Bambi2020
      5,0
    • Frida

      • 528 stránok
      • 19 hodin čítania

      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.

      Frida2020
      4,0
    • Lost Children Archive

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 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 Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then? A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. This will be the last journey they ever take together. In Central America and Mexico, thousands of children are on a journey of their own, travelling north to the US border. Not all of them will make it there.

      Lost Children Archive2019
      3,8
    • 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

      Tell Me How it Ends2017
      4,4
    • The Story of My Teeth

      • 192 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      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.

      The Story of My Teeth2015
      3,5
    • »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.

      Falsche Papiere2014
      4,1
    • Faces in the Crowd

      • 160 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      A stunningly imaginative and witty debut novel about passion, identity and ghostly existences from an exciting new voice in Latin American literature

      Faces in the Crowd2013
      3,6