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What are Valeria Luiselli books about? ›

Lost Children Archive, her first novel written in English, reimagines the American road trip novel by combining it with the tale of a marriage in decline. Underlying their trip is the narrator's increasing concern concern for the unaccompanied minor migration crisis.

Dana There is an overall plot to the trilogy, with everything not being resolved in book 1, as opposed to companion novels. So A Marvellous Light should probably be read first!

Restless is an espionage novel written by William Boyd, published in 2006. It won the Costa Prize for fiction. The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II.

Red Dust is a 2000 novel written by South African-born Gillian Slovo that is structured around the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the fictional town Smitsrivier. Its key theme centers around the question of truth.

Married Mexican Writers Álvaro Enrigue and Valeria Luiselli on Their Buzzy New Novels and New York Life.

Luiselli herself grew up largely outside Mexico – her father was a diplomat and her mother worked for NGOs – and now, post-divorce, lives in New York with her 10-year-old daughter, 20-something niece, and a mother who drops in all the time. “It's a matriarchal house,” she says.

A Restless Truth focuses on Maud Blyth, sister to A Marvellous Light's Robin, as she discovers her own strengths and explores her sexuality in this magical murder mystery. Maud is working as a lady's companion for the older and sometimes aggravating magician Elizabeth Navenby aboard the transatlantic ocean liner Lyric.

This book also dives deeply into Violet and Maud's relationship. If you've read A Marvellous Light, then you know that these books are not only historical fantasies, but also heavy romances. Instead of the continuation of Robin and Edwin's relationship, we see the budding romance between Violet and Maud.

Each book has followed a different couple to their HEA/HFN, but the plot is overarching, so I would suggest reading at least one of the other books before jumping into this one.

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Is Restless based on a true story? ›

The Restless miniseries stars Hayley Atwell as Eva Delectorskaya, Rufus Sewell as Lucas Romer, Michelle Dockery as Ruth Gilmartin and Charlotte Rampling as an older Eva. William Boyd adapted it from his own novel, which was itself loosely based on actual events.

Restless is the French remake of the 2014 South Korean film A Hard Day. In reading the plot summary it looks like director Régis Blondeau pretty much reproduced the same plot and characters transposed in this case to France.

In this expression, “red dust” (hongchen) refers to the mortal world, so the phrase really means “seeing through the world of mortal beings.” The phrase originated in Chinese literature and describes the phenomenal world as like red dust dancing in the air, implying a scene bustling with life.

Book overview. After the tragic death of her husband in a light-plane accident, Gemma Sinclair is left with the daunting task of managing the vast outback station he's bequeathed her. But she remains haunted by Adam's dying words, not to mention persistent whispers that Adam's death was not an accident .

About Red Dust

In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing.

A novelist in creative and marital crises finds support with her three best friends, each of whom is discovering her own path to success.

Usual tropes of friendship of four girls we have seen infinite times. Valeria is a writer facing a writer's block, then finding inspiration from her real life escapades of cheating and her struggles. Then her friend Lola has a wrapped relationship with a committed man.

Valeria is a Spanish comedy-drama television series developed by María López Castaño for Netflix, based on the novel series En los zapatos de Valeria by Elísabet Benavent.

The Story of My Teeth (La historia de mis dientes) is a 2013 Spanish-language novel by Valeria Luiselli, translated into English in 2015 by Christina MacSweeney. The novel tells the story of Gustavo "Highway" Sánchez Sánchez, an auctioneer in Mexico City who auctions off various historical and literary figures' teeth.