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Beginning Middle End
€ 23.75
ISBN: 9780008804800
'What sets Valeria Luiselli's new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness' COLM TOIBIN
'Inventive, brilliant, playful ... dazzles on every page' KATIE KITAMURA
From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time.
A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins - not just to the familial past across continents, languages and generations, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.
With her daughter coming into her own and her mother showing signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself confronting the primary questions of life: How do stories shape our children's imaginations? How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?
A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a mystery, Beginning Middle End is a shapeshifting novel that offers an exhilarating testament to the power and instability of the stories we hold most dear.
'A profound meditation on parenthood ... I loved it, beginning middle and end' TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars
'An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere' SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream
368 pages.
Not Yet Published.
Printed on or after 30/07/26. Please note dispatch may take 5-10 days after publication date.
A separate order should be placed for this item. If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete.
Date of Publication: 30/07/2026
Hardback
