Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli • Signed First Edition in Slipcase

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli • Signed First Edition in Slipcase


Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 400 pages. Brown quarter cloth over black boards. Flat signed in black ink by Valeria Luiselli to the title page. In a lettered slipcase. F/NF. Dust jacket shows mild brush of edge crinkle.

Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Winner of the Folio Prize. Longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Among the titles selected as the Best Book of 2019 by the New York Times, The Guardian, TIME magazine and more.


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A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home.


Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis" : thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way. he answered his father.



As the family drives--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure--both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.


Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archiveis an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.