Publication Date: 15/09/2022 ISBN: 9780861544769 Category:

Solito

Javier Zamora

Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication Date: 15/09/2022 ISBN: 9780861544769 Category:
Hardback

£18.99

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Solito is my travel book of the year.’ Telegraph

‘Heartbreaking… A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.’ Lea Ypi

‘If there’s any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.’ Rumaan Alam

Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States. For this to happen, he must embark on a three-thousand-mile journey alone. It should last only two weeks. But it takes seven.

In limbo, Javier learns what people will do to survive – and what they will forfeit to save someone else. This is a memoir of perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, and pointed guns. But it is also a story of tasting tacos for the first time, of who passes you their water jug in the crippling heat, and of longing to be in your mother’s arms.

Publisher Review

'The heartbreaking odyssey of nine-year-old Javier Zamora, travelling through South America alone to reach his migrant parents in California, is both a rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing and a haunting testament to the human cost of contemporary immigration policies. I was brought to tears of sympathy and anger.' -- Lea Ypi, author of Free 'This is a magnificent book. Every character is rendered with boundless care and love, and the result is... a gorgeous, riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help one another in times of struggle. With this book, Zamora arrives at the forefront of essential American voices.' -- Dave Eggers, author of The Circle and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 'If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.' -- Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind 'Zamora presents an immensely moving story of desperation and hardship in this account of his childhood migration from El Salvador to the US... This sheds an urgent and compassionate light on the human lives caught in an ongoing humanitarian crisis.' -- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'I have waited for a memoir like Solito for decades.' -- Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street 'Solito is at once blistering and tender, devastating and affirming - it is, quite simply, a revelation, a new landmark in the literature of migration, and in nonfiction writ large.' -- Francisco Cantu, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Becomes a River 'A monumental act of reconstruction...Zamora reminds us that behind the word migrant - whether used casually or cruelly - there are human faces, and individual tragedies and triumphs. * New Internationalist * 'A stone-cold masterpiece. I read with my heart in my throat.' -- Emma Straub, author of the New York Times Bestseller ALL ADULTS HERE

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