Javier Zamora

Con tan solo nueve años, Javier Zamora emprendió un viaje de cinco mil kilómetros de El Salvador a Estados Unidos para reencontrarse con sus padres, dejando atrás todo lo que le era familiar. En compañia de un grupo de desconocidos guiados por un coyote, el recorrido que iba a durar dos semanas se convirtio en una imposible odisea de casi dos meses, cambiandole para siempre la vida. Solito es el recuento de esa experiencia. Es el testimonio inolvidable de un largo y angustioso periplo, pero tambien es un libro lleno de amor, bondad y agradecimiento. Es la historia de Javier, pero es tambien la historia de millones que no tuvieron otra opcion mas que la de abandonar su hogar.

Du haut de ses neuf ans, Javier quitte ses grands-parents, ses copains d’école et son pays d’origine, El Salvador, pour retrouver ses parents déjà installés clandestinement aux États-Unis. Seul, il p

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSolito is my travel book of the year.TelegraphHeartbreaking A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing. Lea YpiIf theres any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic. Rumaan AlamYoung 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 mothers arms.

New York Times Bestseller Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyA young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this gripping memoir (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of the New York Public Librarys Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book AwardI read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.Emma StraubA riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.Dave EggersONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus ReviewsTrip. My parents started using that word about a year agoone day, youll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.Javier Zamoras adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a coyote hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamoras story, but its also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

UN NIÑO DE NUEVE AÑOSUN VIAJE IMPOSIBLEUNAS MEMORIAS INOLVIDABLES«Javier Zamora ha escrito una obra fundamental para entender la tragedia en la que se ha convertido la migración en nuestros tiempos».

Quan en Javier tenia nou anys li van dir que podia començar el «viatge». Dies després va deixar la petita vila d’El Salvador on vivia i es va dirigir, a peu i sota la tutela d’un coiot, cap a Guatema

«En esta conmovedora autobiografía que no podrás soltar, un joven poeta relata la inolvidable historia de su desgarradora migración hacia Estados Unidos desde El Salvador a los nueve años, considerad