Books written by Valeria Luiselli

Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips

Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk....
Windmill: January 2017: the Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art

Windmill: January 2017: the Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art
Lost Children Archive: A novel

This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an ...
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ...
Lost Children Archive

A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America -- a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs.
Faces in the Crowd

Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing" (Alma Guillermoprieto).
Desierto Sonoro

Un año después, la Sociedad de Asistencia encontró una solución. Meter a los niños en trenes. Hogares para los niños. Movimiento del Tren de los Huérfanos, 1910 El Tren de los Huérfanos. § RECORTE / PÓSTER ...
The Story of My Teeth

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.
McSweeney's Issue 65 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Guest Editor Valeria Luiselli

In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and, crucially, defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples?
Sidewalks

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.
Faces in the Crowd

Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. “An extraordinary new literary talent.”—The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist ...
Lost Children Archive: A novel

This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an ...
The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin.
Tell Me how it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
Lost Children Archive

"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"--
Lost Children Archive

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN’S PRIZE The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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 Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Out of her work has come this book - a search for answers and an urgent appeal for humanity and compassion in response to mass migration, the most significant global phenomenon of our time.
Sidewalks

Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky's Watermark and Benjamin's The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.