A queer, baroque, tender and surreal novel that conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America
The Adventures of China Iron
Written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Translated by Fiona Mackintosh, Iona Macintyre
- Original language:
- Spanish
- Shortlisted
- The International Booker Prize 2020
- Published by Charco Press
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s joyful, hallucinatory novel is also an incisive critique of national myths and a requiem for the casualties of ‘progress’
1872, Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho camp. After her no-good husband is conscripted, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic, Martín Fierro, is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom.
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in Buenos Aires and is one of the leading figures in Argentinian literature
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Fiona Mackintosh
Fiona Mackintosh is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Literature at the University of Edinburgh with research interests in gender studies, comparative literature and literary translation
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Iona Macintyre
Iona Macintyre is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh
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