Хуан Пабло Вильялобос — новинки

«Бенкет у норі» — це повний чорного гумору і глибокого співчуття дебютний роман відомого мексиканського автора, Хуана Пабло Вільялобоса, хроніка неймовірної мандрівки, у яку відправляються герої, щоб здійснити бажання дитини.

Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.

You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer.

Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here.

In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival—including two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters—offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.–Central American refugee crisis.

In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.

Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants, and the odd corrupt politician or two. Long-listed for The Guardian First Book Award, Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.

Ihr Weg f?hrte durch die «K?hlschr?nke» – so nennen die Kinder aus Mittelamerika die kargen, klimatisierten Auffangzentren in den USA. Davor lag eine lange, gef?hrliche Reise, die manche ihrer Gef?hrten nicht ?berlebten. Juan Pablo Villalobos hat sie befragt und ihre Geschichten aufgeschrieben. Es sind Kinder aus Guatemala, Honduras und El Salvador, die ganz allein die Reise in das gelobte Land im Norden antraten, getrieben von Gewalt und zerst?rten Familien. Sie alle tr?umten den gleichen Traum von einem Leben in Geborgenheit. Und sie alle haben bereits eine Geschichte, von der manche Erwachsene nicht einmal tr?umen m?gen. Ein n?chternes und doch ergreifendes St?ck Literatur vom amerikanischen Kontinent in ­diesen unseren Zeiten.