A queer, baroque, tender and surreal novel that conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America
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
About the Author
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in Buenos Aires and is one of the leading figures in Argentinian literature
Fiona Mackintosh
About the Translator
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
Iona Macintyre
About the Translator
Iona Macintyre is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of EdinburghOther nominated books by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
