Name: Undiscovered
SKU: 55994371
Price: 700.00 TWD
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Author: Gabriela Wiener
ISBN: 9780063256705

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Wiener

Translated by

Julia Sanches

Publisher

Harpervia

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780063256705

Synopsis "Undiscovered"

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent."--Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive Award-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this "appealingly raw" (NPR) and "incisive" (Publishers Weekly) work of autofiction that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them--but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener. In the wake of her father's death, Gabriela returns to Peru. In alternating strands, she begins to probe her father's infidelity, her own polyamorous relationship, and the history of her colonial ancestor, unpacking the legacy that is her birthright. From the eye-patched persona her father adopted to carry out his double life to the brutal racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles's book, she traces a cycle of abandonment, jealousy, and fraud, in turn reframing her own personal struggles with desire, love, and race. Translated by Julia Sanches

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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