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Slum Virgin
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Synopsis "Slum Virgin"
"Queer writing at its most exhilarating." --Times Literary Supplement The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed a 'revelation for contemporary literature' and 'pure dynamite' (Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves).When the Virgin Mary appears to Cleopatra, she renounces sex work and takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia. Ambitious journalist Quity knows she's found the story of the year when she hears about it, but her life is changed forever once she finds herself irrevocably seduced by the captivating subject of her article. Densely-packed, fast-paced prose, weaving slang and classical references, Slum Virgin refuses to whitewash the reality of the poor and downtrodden, and jumps deftly from tragedy to comedy in a way that has the reader laughing out loud.
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara es una escritora argentina nacida en 1968. Ha ejercido múltiples oficios, desde vender seguros de auto en la calle hasta el periodismo cultural. Actualmente imparte talleres de escritura. Traducida a más de una decena de idiomas, es autora de las nouvelles Le viste la cara a Dios (2011) y Romance de la Negra Rubia (2014), y de las novelas La Virgen Cabeza (2009) y Las aventuras de la China Iron, finalista en la shortlist del International Booker Prize (2020) y del Médicis (2021).