Name: We are Green and Trembling
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Author: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ISBN: 9780811238618

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Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811238618

We are Green and Trembling

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Author) · New Directions Publishing Corporation · Paperback

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Synopsis "We are Green and Trembling"

Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, cabin boy, and conquistador; he has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now, caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement, and hounded by the army he deserted, this protean protagonist contemplates one more metamorphosis, which just might save the new world from extinction...Based on the life of Antonio de Erauso, a real figure of the Spanish conquest, We Are Green and Trembling is a queer baroque satire and a historical novel that blends elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. Its rich and wildly imaginative language forms a searing criticism of conquest and colonialism, religious tyranny, and the treatment of women and indigenous people. It is a masterful subversion of Latin American history with a trans character at its center, finding in the rainforest a magical, surreal space where transformation is not only possible but necessary.

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is an Argentine writer born in 1968. She has held multiple jobs, from selling car insurance on the street to cultural journalism. She currently teaches writing workshops. Translated into more than a dozen languages, she is the author of the novellas Le viste la cara a Dios (2011) and Romance de la Negra Rubia (2014), and the novels La Virgen Cabeza (2009) and Las aventuras de la China Iron, finalist in the shortlist of the International Booker Prize (2020) and the Médicis (2021)

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