Valeria Luiselli

De vektløse er en nydelig og eksentrisk roman fra Mexicos unge stjerneforfatter Valeria Luiselli. Midt i Mexico City begynner en ung mor å skrive om sin tid i New York og hvor opptatt hun var av den obskure poeten Gilberto Owen. Samtidig får vi Gilbertos historie, men smått om senn begynner grensene mellom disse historiene på bli utvisket. Hun tar for eksempel toget gjennom Harlem, mens han på sin side 50 år tidligere, til stadighet er plaget av synes av en ung kvinne som hans skimter i vinduet på togkupéene som raser forbi.

Gustavo Sánchez Sánchez, kallad Highway, är en man med ett liv fullt av berättelser och märkliga historier, och en mun full med dåliga tänder. Det senare ska få en förändring då Highway kommit över Marilyn Monroes bländvita garnityr och har möjligheten att byta ut sina egna gulnande gaddar. För att lyckas med detta måste han först dock bege sig på en resa och sälja de tänder han redan har och som alla bär på en historia om sina tidigare ägare: Platon, Virginia Woolf, Borges med flera. Historien om mina tänder är en lika fascinerande och intelligent som dråplig och underhållande roman om berättelsens nödvändighet och historieberättandets betydelse. Valeria Luiselli är född 1983 i Mexico City och är sedan flera år bosatt i New York. Hon är översatt till över 20 språk och har medverkat i tidskrifter som The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney s och i podden This American Life. Den lika vågade som geniala romanen Historien om mina tänder prisades som Årets bästa bok av New York Times, Buzzfeed och Flavorwire.

I Mexiko City begrundar en ung tvåbarnsmor sin tid i New York då hon jobbade på ett litet bokförlag för att upptäcka latinamerikanska författare och rörde sig i kretsar av konstnärer, bohemer, udda karaktärer och främmande män som blev hennes älskare. En tid om vilken hon börjar skriva en roman. I New York var det särskilt en poet som fångade hennes uppmärksamhet och som hon börjar översätta till förlaget. Den nästintill bortglömde mexikanske poeten Gilberto Owen, som på 20-talet bodde i samma kvarter som hon själv i Harlem. Efterhand blir intresset till en besatthet och hon börjar se Owen skymta förbi på tunnelbanan och med honom snart också andra spöken, som Ezra Pound. Eller är det bara levande personer som liknar dem. Hennes liv flyter alltmer samman med Owens och då maken i hemmet i Mexiko City börjar läsa hennes roman om deras liv löses fiktion och verklighet upp i ett vackert, melankoliskt sönderfall av vardagens konkreta gränser. De tyngdlösa rör sig från New Yorks vindlande tunnelbanegångar till litteraturens oändlighet. Från ungdomens flyktiga kärleksmöten till familjelivets avsaknad av de samma. Mexikanska Valeria Luiselli förmår ojämförbart fånga läsaren genom att vända på våra förväntningar om vad som är verkligt.

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

"Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis—and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." —Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's a rare thing: a book everyone should read." —Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books"Tell Me How It Ends evokes empathy as it educates. It is a vital contribution to the body of post-Trump work being published in early 2017."—Katharine Solheim, Unabridged Bookstore"While this essay is brilliant for exactly what it depicts, it helps open larger questions, which we're ever more on the precipice of now, of where all of this will go, how all of this might end. Is this a story, or is this beyond a story? Valeria Luiselli is one of those brave and eloquent enough to help us see."—Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company"Appealing to the language of the United States' fraught immigration policy, Luiselli exposes the cracks in this foundation. Herself an immigrant, she highlights the human cost of its brokenness, as well as the hope that it (rather than walls) might be rebuilt."—Brad Johnson, Diesel Bookstore"The bureaucratic labyrinth of immigration, the dangers of searching for a better life, all of this and more is contained in this brief and profound work. Tell Me How It Ends is not just relevant, it's essential."—Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore

Gustavo 'Highway' Sánchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness, Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and creation, and the points at which they overlap.

"Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and M rquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it's truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next."--The New York TimesI 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, Eur pides L pez S nchez, 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. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth is the Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.

Grantland Book of the Year Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses "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 Alarcón "I'm completely captivated by the beauty of the paragraphs, the elegance of the prose, the joy in the written word, and the literary sense of this author."? Enrique Vilas-Matas Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novel and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Some of her recent projects include a ballet performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014"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 intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage?and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it?has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."? Francisco GoldmanIn Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction." Luiselli’s haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." ? Publishers Weekly

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen and Federico Garcia Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.

Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a foreign city, Valeria Luiselli plots a unique and exhilarating course that traces unexpected pathways between diverse ideas and reveals the world from a fresh perspective. Here, we follow Luiselli as she cycles around Mexico City, shares a cigarette with the night porter in her Harlem apartment, and hunts down a poet's tomb in Venice. Each location sparks Luiselli's nimble curiosity and prompts imaginative reflections and inventions on topics as varied as the fluidity of identity, the elusiveness of words that can't be translated, the competing methods of arranging a bookcase, and the way that city-dwellers evade eye-contact with their neighbours while spying on their lives. Sidewalks cements Luiselli's reputation as one of Latin America's most original, smart and exciting new literary voices.

En mor ankommer Sicilia sammen med tenåringsdatteren sin, i en sommer preget av skiftende vinder og plutselige stormer. Her, nær området hvor bestemoren en gang arbeidet ved en arkeologisk utgraving, forsøker hun å finne ut hvordan hun kan bygge opp et nytt liv for seg og datteren. De lager mat, spiller sjakk, småkrangler og blir venner igjen - samtidig som datteren blir mer og mer opptatt av oldemorens fortid som arkeolog. Hvordan begynner man på nytt, undrer moren - og hva om den nye begynnelsen du forestiller deg, egentlig er slutten? Begynnelse, Midte, Slutt er en varm og poetisk hyllest til fantasien og mulighetene som fremdeles byr seg frem i en mørk tid, fra den prisbelønte forfatteren Valeria Luiselli.

Isä, äiti, tyttö ja poika lähtevät New Yorkista automatkalle halki Amerikan. Äänimaisemia työkseen tallentavan pariskunnan ajaessa kohti Arizonaa kuilu heidän välillään repeytyy entisestään. Lauluja, karttoja ja polaroidkameraa apunaan käyttäen lapset yrittävät käsittää ja dokumentoida sekä oman perheensä kriisiä että sitä, josta radiossa kerrotaan: uutisia tuhansista paperittomista pakolaislapsista, jotka pyrkivät Yhdysvaltain etelärajan yli maahan mutta jäävät yksin jumiin pidätyskeskuksiin tai eksyvät matkalla aavikolle. Kaikuina ja heijastuksina näitä kahta matkaa rinnakkain kuljettava Kadonneiden lasten arkisto on virtuoosimaisesti kirjoitettu romaani inhimillisyydestä epäinhimillisessä maailmassa. Kiihkeän poliittinen ja koskettavan henkilökohtainen teos voitti Rathbones Folio -kirjallisuuspalkinnon ja oli Booker- ja Women’s Prize for Fiction -ehdokkaana. "Kaavat rikkova uusi klassikko... Romaanimuoto todella uudistuu hänen käsissään: sähköiseksi, elastiseksi, houkuttelevaksi, uudenlaiseksi." - New York Times "Ihmeellisen taitava tarina, jossa siirtolaislasten kokemukset suodattuvat New Yorkista Meksikon rajalle ajavan perheen herkän, hauskan ja vaivattoman runollisen kuvauksen kautta." - Guardian "Rohkea, täysin omalaatuinen, nerokas... suurta amerikkalaista road trip -romaania uudistava, vieraantumisesta kertova kirja, joka kronikoi murtumia, kuiluja ja etääntymistä." - NPR