In fierce and fearless first-person accounts, Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the prisons of Lima, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, travelling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris to live with transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation, taking part in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle, and slipping into the bedroom of the porn superstar Nacho Vidal. At the same time, she takes us on deep, inward journeys. A reckless and exciting journey through the most savage side of narrative journalism.
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Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publication Date: 12 Jul 2018
Publisher: Restless Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781632061591
About Gabriela WienerJennifer AdcockLucy Greaves
About the Author:Gabriela Wiener (Lima 1975) is author of the crónicas collections SexografíasNueve LunasMozart la iguana con priapismo y otras historias and Llamada perdida. Her work also includes the poetry collection Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu. Her latest book is Dicen de mí (2017). She writes regularly for the newspapers El País (Spain) and La República (Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines such as Etiqueta Negra (Peru) Anfibia (Argentina) Corriere della Sera (Italy) XXI (France) and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire. She left the magazine in 2014 to work on her first novel.About the Translators:Lucy Greaves is a literary translator and bike mechanic who lives in Bristol UK. She enjoys the poetry of bicycles and the mechanics of language equally.Jennifer Adcock is a Mexican-born Scotland-based poet and translator working in English and Spanish. Under the pen name Juana Adcock' her work has appeared in publications such as Words Without Borders Asymptote Magma Poetry Shearsman Structo Gutter and Glasgow Review of Books and she has taken part in numerous literary festivals internationally. Her first poetry collection Manca explores the anatomy of violence in Mexico and was named by Reformas distinguished critic Sergio González Rodríguez as one of the best poetry books published in 2014. In 2016 she was named one of the Ten New Voices from Europe by Literature Across Frontiers. Her translations include Slim: Portrait of the World's Richest Man by Diego Osorno (forthcoming Verso Books) and An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo in a co-translation with Sophie Hughes (forthcoming Charco Press).