WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONWINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZENATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly; TIME; NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; GQ; The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Dallas Morning News; and the New York Public Library“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new.” --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesA fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home.Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father.In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way.As the family drives--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure--both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.
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Lost Children Archive: A novel
von Valeria Luiselli
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONWINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZENATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly; TIME; NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; GQ; The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Dallas Morning News; and the New York Public Library“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new.” --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesA fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home.Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father.In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way.As the family drives--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure--both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von JuliaHier wird etwas Außergewöhnliches versucht und es gelingt: ein märchenhafter Roadtrip von New York in die Apacheria, die Geschichte einer Familie - die auseinandertriftet und doch beisammen sein muss, ein Blick in die unrühmliche US-Geschichte und Gegenwart und obendrein als Intermezzo eine Elegie der verlorenen Kinder, die von Zentralamerika in die USA fliehen. Und als ob die Autorin sich hier nicht schon inhaltlich originell genug vorwagt, baut sie auch eine narrative Struktur ohne gleichen: ein intertextuelles Archiv, das mal wie ein Woolfcher Klassiker atemlos erzählt, mal tief in die Gefühlswelt einer interessanten Frauenfigur vordringt, um dann wieder aus der Sicht eines Zehnjährigen einen Versuch zu unternehmen, die Welt zu verstehen. Ein wahnsinnig großes Buch, das mich als Leserin in der Wüste der Gefühle aussetzt, in der Hoffnung, dass die Menschen sich auf ein Besseres besinnen.