Beginning Middle End

Praise for Beginning Middle End:

‘This book is an animal from the future, with five hearts beating at once – daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, reader. Each time one of the hearts beats faster, it touches all the others. An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’ Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream

Praise for Lost Children Archive:

‘An engrossing portrait of a family … involving and richly textured’ Sunday Times

‘A mold-breaking new classic … the novel truly becomes novel again in her hands – electric, elastic, alluring, new’ New York Times

‘Urgent, poignant … Dazzlingly, compellingly [Luiselli] urges her readers towards a common humanity’ Financial Times

‘A resonant Great American Novel for our time – a dense and layered novel of the Americas, evocative of Kerouac and Bolaño, Rebecca Solnit and Juan Rulfo’ Vanity Fair

‘Engrossing … a beautiful, loving portrait of children and of the task of looking after them’ New Yorker

‘Daring, wholly original, brilliant … a twist on the great American road trip novel … Luiselli is an extraordinary writer’ NPR

‘[Lost Children Archive] demands a single sitting … an object lesson in why fiction matters’ TLS

‘A gorgeous and vital ghost-rich soundscape, and one of the most brilliant portrayals of child-parent relationships I have ever read’ Max Porter, author of Shy

‘Luiselli is a master. Not since Lolita has a road trip so brilliantly captured the dark underbelly of the American dream’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of In The Dream House

‘Valeria Luiselli writes with so much intelligence and compassion and originality, her work always astonishes me. Lost Children Archive is absolutely phenomenal’ Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her work is published in more than thirty languages. Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive, was an international commercial and critical success. It won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021 and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She lives in New York, and teaches at Bard College and Harvard University.