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Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli (1983) is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of "Sidewalks," "The Story of My Teeth," and the internationally acclaimed novel "Faces in the Crowd." Luiselli's short fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Granta... show more

Valeria Luiselli (1983) is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of "Sidewalks," "The Story of My Teeth," and the internationally acclaimed novel "Faces in the Crowd." Luiselli's short fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Granta and McSweeney's. Her work has been translated to multiple languages.
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FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it 7 years ago
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis is a phenomenal collection of essays.I loved it. I have only read one other book by Luiselli (Faces in the Crowd) and loved it as well. I would really like to read more by her. She has a very unique and imaginative way of describing things and exp...
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it 7 years ago
This is one of those books where you have no idea what is going on most of the time, but it is still an enjoyable read. I don't know what it is exactly, but the experience of reading this novel is amazing. The writing is beautifully disjointed, or rather it is "a horizontal novel, told vertically. A...
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it 7 years ago
I wasn’t just a lowly seller of objects, but, first and foremost, a lover and collector of good stories, which is the only honest way of modifying the value of an object.Σουρεάλ, τερπνό κι ιδιαίτερο ανάγνωσμα.
Reader! Reader!
Reader! Reader! rated it 9 years ago
A very odd little book. Reads as being annoyingly experimental. And it is experimental, as the author explains in the afterword—she wrote it as a serial, for and with workers at a Jumex plant in Mexico (the actual setting of parts of the book). So, she wrote a section, they discussed it and were tap...
moving under skies
moving under skies rated it 10 years ago
Valeria Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd was the first book from the Best Translated Book Award 2015 Longlist that I read. It is one of my favorite books that I have ever read from the BTBA titles, and will probably be one of the top books of my year. I will definitely look for Luiselli's next novel--d...
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