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Gabriela Cabezon Camara: We Are Green and Trembling [2025]
**Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South Americaâs best-known trans men, Antonio de ErausoThe new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron''Luminous'' SAMANTA SCHWEBLINâBold and compassionateâ Financial TimesFrom deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, heâs become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two GuaranĂ girls he rescued from enslavement.
But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction. Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation. ''Profoundly resonant⊠the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to eraseâ Chicago Review of BooksâSensuous and searing â a queer anticolonial picaresqueâ Publishers WeeklyâGabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmaraâs writing is singular in the Spanish languageâ FERNANDA MELCHORTranslated by Robin Myers
But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction. Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation. ''Profoundly resonant⊠the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to eraseâ Chicago Review of BooksâSensuous and searing â a queer anticolonial picaresqueâ Publishers WeeklyâGabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmaraâs writing is singular in the Spanish languageâ FERNANDA MELCHORTranslated by Robin Myers
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**Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South Americaâs best-known trans men, Antonio de ErausoThe new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron''Luminous'' SAMANTA SCHWEBLINâBold and compassionateâ Financial TimesFrom deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, heâs become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two GuaranĂ girls he rescued from enslavement.
But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction. Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation. ''Profoundly resonant⊠the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to eraseâ Chicago Review of BooksâSensuous and searing â a queer anticolonial picaresqueâ Publishers WeeklyâGabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmaraâs writing is singular in the Spanish languageâ FERNANDA MELCHORTranslated by Robin Myers
But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction. Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation. ''Profoundly resonant⊠the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to eraseâ Chicago Review of BooksâSensuous and searing â a queer anticolonial picaresqueâ Publishers WeeklyâGabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmaraâs writing is singular in the Spanish languageâ FERNANDA MELCHORTranslated by Robin Myers
