by Valeria Luiselli · SEXTO PISO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496867895
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In 'The Weightless', Valeria Luiselli presents us with a novel about ghostly existences, a melancholic and humorous evocation of the impossibility of loving encounter and the irrevocable nature of loss. The narrator, a woman from contemporary Mexico, recounts her years of youth as an editor in New York, where the ghost of the poet Gilberto Owen haunted her through the subway. Owen, on the verge of death, recalls his youth during the Harlem Renaissance, participating in New York literary life alongside writers such as Louis Zukofsky or Federico García Lorca. Both narrators seek each other in the unfathomable space of the underground trains, where they traveled in their respective pasts.
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author. She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Fiction, and she was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul in Montreal, Quebec. Luiselli's books have been translated into more than 20 languages, with her work appearing in publications including, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. Her book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel, Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
