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Romans literatuur
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN’S PRIZEThe moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then?
A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they’re hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh. The little boy educates them all and corrects them when they’re wrong. The mother and the father are barely speaking to each other.
Meanwhile, thousands of children are journeying north, travelling to the US border from Central America and Mexico. A grandmother or aunt has packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean underwear. They have been met by a coyote: a man who speaks to them roughly and frightens them. They cross a river on rubber tubing and walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open container on top. Not all of them will make it to the border.
In a breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive intertwines these two journeys to create a masterful novel full of echoes and reflections – a moving, powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
© 2019 Fourth Estate (Luisterboek): 9780008290061
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 12 februari 2019
4.1
Romans literatuur
WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN’S PRIZEThe moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature
Suppose you and Pa were gone, and we were lost. What would happen then?
A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they’re hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells surreal knock knock jokes and makes them all laugh. The little boy educates them all and corrects them when they’re wrong. The mother and the father are barely speaking to each other.
Meanwhile, thousands of children are journeying north, travelling to the US border from Central America and Mexico. A grandmother or aunt has packed a backpack for them, putting in a bible, one toy, some clean underwear. They have been met by a coyote: a man who speaks to them roughly and frightens them. They cross a river on rubber tubing and walk for days, saving whatever food and water they can. Then they climb to the top of a train and travel precariously in the open container on top. Not all of them will make it to the border.
In a breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive intertwines these two journeys to create a masterful novel full of echoes and reflections – a moving, powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
© 2019 Fourth Estate (Luisterboek): 9780008290061
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 12 februari 2019
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Petra
14 jun 2023
De manier van voorlezen kon mij niet bekoren. Er zullen vast mensen zijn die het prachtig vinden maar mij ging het al snel vervelen. Een beetje meer intonatie tijdens het voorlezen had het verhaal goed gedaan.
Siënna
16 jan 2021
Het mooiste boek die ik in 2019 heb geluisterd. Een reis van een jong gezin wordt in een ander perspectief gezet door wat ze bij de grens aantreffen. Een hartverwarmend en triest boek en het is een toegevoegde waarde dat het opgenomen is als audioboek. De audio opnames die ze tijdens de reis opnemen komen helemaal tot hun recht terwijl je aan het luisteren bent. Ik heb het boek aan meerdere mensen als cadeau gegeven, dus echt aanrader als een interesse hebt in maatschappelijke onderwerpen, poëtische blik, reizen en storytelling.
A.L
1 feb 2020
Incredible story, powerful, vivid, and movie-version worthy.
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