by Valeria Luiselli · OLIVIER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879297569
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«L'Histoire de mes dents» is the novel by Valeria Luiselli, published by Olivier in paperback, with 192 pages in French.
Gustavo «Grandroute» Sanchez, the world's best auctioneer, plans to have all his teeth extracted and pass them off as remains of Plato, Petrarch or Virginia Woolf. The deception takes a turn when his son, present at the auction, decides to buy his own father. A fantasy about the power of fiction and the value given to objects.
French translation by Nicolas Richard. The work was originally published as «Historia de mis dientes»; this French edition appeared in 2017.
For reading clubs and lovers of contemporary and Latin American narrative who appreciate metafictional play and ironic humour.
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.
