Name: Sexographies
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Author: Gabriela Wiener
ISBN: 9781632061591

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Wiener

Publisher

Restless Books

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781632061591

Edition No.

Synopsis "Sexographies "

“No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener’s work … has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymorphous desire to the tiring labor of maternity.” —Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac CrestIn fierce and sumptuous first-person accounts, renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the most dangerous Peruvian prison, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the company of transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation, and participating in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle—all while taking us on inward journeys that explore immigration, maternity, fear of death, ugliness, and threesomes. Fortunately, our eagle-eyed voyeur emerges from her narrative forays unscathed and ready to take on the kinks, obsessions, and messiness of our lives. Sexographies is an eye-opening, kamikaze journey across the contours of the human body and mind.

Gabriela Wiener

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Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is the author of the books Sexografías, Mozart with Priapism and Other Stories, Missed Call, They Say About Me, and the poetry book Exercises for the Hardening of the Spirit. Her texts have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, German, French, and Italian. She was the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine in Spain and today regularly publishes opinion columns for the website of El Diario, Vice, and for the Spanish content of The New York Times, as well as a video column on la mula.

She won the National Journalism Award in her country for an investigative report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of several literary performances that she has staged with her family and of the play How Crazy of Me to Fall in Love with You. She currently resides in Madrid.

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