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In 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.
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Reviews
"Valeria Luiselli's lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery."
New York Times
"Luiselli's haunting debut novel . . . erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. [T]his elegant novel speaks to the transience of reality. The elusive strands of the young woman and Owen's narratives intertwine and blur together as Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition."
Publishers Weekly, Boxed Review
"[A] lovely and mysterious first novel...the multilayered book she has devised brings freshness and excitement to such complex inquiries."
Wall Street Journal