Fourth Estate Tell Me How it Ends, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Valeria Luiselli
1048 ratings
TO EXPLORE MORE
Price: £9.99
Brand: Fourth Estate
Description: A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers. Fourth Estate Tell Me How it Ends, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Valeria Luiselli - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Harper Collins
Product ID: 9780008271923
Delivery cost: Spend £20 and get free shipping
Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: history,memoir,polemic,essay,politics,border,journey,to,edge,europe,making,donald,trump,optician,lampedusa,prisoners,geography,how,did,we,get,into,this,mess,exit,west,double,blackmail,establishment,refuge,you,will,not,have,my,hate,narconomics,were,eight,years,power,why,i’m,no,longer,talking,white,people,race,teeth,faces,crowd,sidewalks,occupy,UTOPIA,REALISTS,david,cay,johnston,emma,jane,kirby,tim,marshall,George,monbiot,jeremy,corbyn,muel,johnson,orwell,bailie,gifford,DACA,dreamers,wall
ISBN: 9780008271923
My website utilises affiliate links when you click my 'Get the best deal now' buttons. If you buy something through one of these links, I may earn a little commission, at no extra cost to you.
I have relationships with many of the top online retailers (purchasing, shipping and returns will be handled directly by them) which enables me to offer the best deal online for the Fourth Estate Tell Me How it Ends, Contemporary Fiction, Paperback, Valeria Luiselli and many other similar products - which will appear below, to enhance your online shopping experience.
For even more great deals on Fourth Estate Books, click the link.
Author: HLeuschel
Rating: 5
Review: This short yet devastating essay is based on the author's experience as an interpreter for undocumented child migrants. She goes through the list of questions that the children have to answer in order to establish the severity of their situation. Most have come from far, have encountered rape, violence, hunger, precarious travel arrangements and abuse until they cross from Mexico into the US. Luiselli explains the huge injustices and failings done to the children by both the American and Mexican governments in a clear and well-documented style. The text also highlights the fact that treating them as “illegal aliens”, rather than as what they truly are, 'refugees of war', is the reason why a huge majority of them get sent back to where they initially came from, continuing the cycle of despair rather than tackling the problem that is causing this nightmare.
Author: Wes Melville
Rating: 5
Review: This slim book is a beautifully written, yet gut wrenching story of child migration from Central America. It’s told through the perspective of interviews with children once they are detained after crossing into the US. The author, Valeria Luiselli, is a Mexican novelist living in NYC., who volunteers translating for immigration courts. She interviews captured children, coming mostly from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and is provided by US immigration with a standard set of 40 questions she is required to ask. The answers to those questions form the basis of whether to grant asylum for these kids or to send them home. The book centers on the stories revealed through the interview answers but also Luiselli’s own experience as an immigrant, albeit one much luckier than those who had to cross via La Bestia. The interviews consumed Luiselli so much that she decided to put down the novel she was writing and focus instead on telling the story of the children she met and the arcane and inhumane system that supposedly is designed to protect us from them.
