Lost Children Archive

Copyright

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

Copyright © Valeria Luiselli

Cover design by Jo Walker.

Valeria Luiselli asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and Aragi, Inc.: Excerpt of “Father’s Old Blue Cardigan” from Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson, copyright © 2000 by Anne Carson. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and Aragi, Inc. All rights reserved.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company: Excerpt of “Little Sleep’s Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight” from Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell. Copyright © 2017 by The Literary Estate of Galway Kinnell, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

International Editors’ Co., on behalf of Bárbara Jacobs and María Monterroso: “El Dinosaurio” by Augusto Monterroso, copyright © 1959 by Augusto Monterroso. Reprinted by permission of International Editors’ Co., on behalf of Bárbara Jacobs and María Monterroso.

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Source ISBN: 9780008290054

Ebook Edition © February 2019 ISBN: 9780008290030

Version: 2020-01-17

Dedication

To Maia and Dylan

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

PART I: FAMILY SOUNDSCAPE

Relocations

Box I

Routes & Roots

Box II

Undocumented

Box III

Missing

Box IV

Removals

PART II: REENACTMENT

Deportations

Maps & Boxes

Box V

Continental Divide

Lost

PART III: APACHERIA

Dust Valleys

Heart of Light

Echo Canyon

PART IV: LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE

Box VI

Document

Box VII

Works Cited

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Valeria Luiselli

About the Publisher

RELOCATIONS

An archive presupposes an archivist, a hand that collects and classifies.

—ARLETTE FARGE

To leave is to die a little.

To arrive is never to arrive.

—MIGRANT PRAYER

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