Luiselli, Valeria

Lost Children Archive

ISBN: 9780525520610
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by Valeria Luiselli. "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...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 imagination." (from front flap) The acclaimed novel by Luiselli Valeria (b. 1983), the award-winning & prolific Mexican author & activist who resides in the USA. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with "2/2019" printed at rear flap), first edition as stated on copyright page, presumed first printing (see above) though not stated or with number sequence as such thereon. On the title page, below her printed name, Luiselli has hand-written her signature in bold black ink. Housed in a handsome slipcase. A beautiful production & an instant rarity; a most rewarding, topical work of contemporary literature. Book in very fine condition, substantially mint inside & out. Dust jacket very fine with only a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine. Slipcase very fine with only a bit of rubbing to surfaces; a touch of wear at edges & corners. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #5434]

Price: $50.00