Name: Slum Virgin
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Author: Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela ; Riddle, Frances
ISBN: 9781999722708

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Translated by

Frances Riddle

Publisher

Charco Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.2

ISBN13

9781999722708

Synopsis "Slum Virgin"

"Queer writing at its most exhilarating." --Times Literary Supplement The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed a 'revelation for contemporary literature' and 'pure dynamite' (Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves).When the Virgin Mary appears to Cleopatra, she renounces sex work and takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia. Ambitious journalist Quity knows she's found the story of the year when she hears about it, but her life is changed forever once she finds herself irrevocably seduced by the captivating subject of her article. Densely-packed, fast-paced prose, weaving slang and classical references, Slum Virgin refuses to whitewash the reality of the poor and downtrodden, and jumps deftly from tragedy to comedy in a way that has the reader laughing out loud.

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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