Valeria Luiselli Press Reviews
`Beautiful, pleasurable, engrossing, beguiling ... brilliantly intricate and constantly surprising' James Wood, New Yorker
`A mould-breaking new classic ... The novel truly becomes novel again in her hands - electric, elastic, alluring, new' New York Times
'Fascinating, haunting, poetic, engrossing ... an involving and richly textured book' Sunday Times
'Valeria Luiselli offers a searing indictment of America's border policy in this roving and rather beautiful form-busting novel. Among the tale's many ruminative ideas about absences, vanished histories and bearing witness, it offers a powerful meditation on how best to tell a story when the subject of it is missing' Daily Mail
`Thrilling ... a rollicking tale that contains within it an extremely disciplined exercise in political empathy' Harper's
`Elegant and generous, funny and poignant ... an extraordinary allegory' Atlantic
`A novelist of a rare vitality' Ali Smith
`Powerful, eloquent. Juxtaposing rich poetic prose with direct storytelling and brutal reality and alternative narratives with photos, documents, poems, maps and music, Luiselli explores what holds a family and society together and what pulls them apart. Superb' Publishers Weekly
`The novelist all your smart friends are talking about' Broadly
`An extraordinary new literary talent' Daily Telegraph
`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
`Luiselli's writing is full of verve' Irish Times
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