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Faces in the Crowd

By Valeria Luiselli
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli weaves together multiple narratives across time, exploring themes of identity and interconnectedness. It centres on a young mother's fragmented life in Mexico City, who reflects on her past as a translator in New York while becoming obsessed with a forgotten poet. The novel blurs the lines between fiction and reality, examining how stories are formed and remembered.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy a narrative that seamlessly blends multiple stories and timelines, exploring themes of identity, connection, and the blurring of reality and fiction. Its rich, poetic prose and unique structure offer a reflective experience that invites readers to ponder the complexities of human experience and memory.

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Valeria Luiselli's crystalline debut: a surreal, enchanting novel about passion, identity, and the ghosts we carry.

Valeria Luiselli's crystalline debut: a surreal, enchanting novel about passion, identity, and the ghosts we carry.

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In New Mexico, she is a young mother. Stuck in a marriage that's deteriorating, unable to shake the feeling that her house and belongings are trapping her, she is increasingly drawn to reflect on who she was before: when she worked as an editor in New York, rarely in her own apartment, always seeking new places to call home.

As she folds time, seeking to inhabit her past, she begins to encounter ghosts. Time and again, a solitary man appears - Gilberto Owen - a lesser-known poet of the Harlem Renaissance, and an obsession of her youth. He is living on the edge of Harlem's social scene at the beginning of the Great Depression, anticipating death, and tracing spectral visions of his own - among them, a young woman, travelling alone, on the subway.

Valeria Luiselli's daring debut, Faces in the Crowd, is a meditation on time, hauntings, and the elusive, transitory identities we assume.

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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli has been praised for its dreamlike and inventive structure, deftly exploring themes of writing and motherhood. Critics have highlighted the novel's distinct style, blending the real with the surreal, and emphasised Luiselli's formidable intellect and originality. The book is noted for its delicate, yet powerful prose, and its ability to transcend traditional Latin American narratives, providing a fresh and exciting addition to contemporary literature.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783787630

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Christina MacSweeney
  • Translated by Christina MacSweeney

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of The Story of My Teeth and Lost Children Archive, which won the Rathbones Folio Prize and was longlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, as well as Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and the essay collection Sidewalks.

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