The Queens Of Sarmiento Park
Paperback
The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful novel about violence, exclusion and love
'A fragment of the future' Edouard Louis 'Ferocious and magical' Torrey Peters, Guardian'It will break your heart' Mariana Enriquez'Naked, glorious storytelling' Claire Oshetsky'A literary sensation' Rolling StoneAuntie Encarna's is the queerest boarding house in the world.For Camila, it is a refuge, and the travesti who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz PrizeWinner of the Premio de Narrativa en CastellanoWinner of the Grand Prix de l'heroine Madame FigaroBuy now!
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- ISBN: 9780349016474
- Author: Camila Sosa Villada
- Pub date: 29.08.23
- RRP: $27.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Camila Sosa Villada
Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Cordoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor and maid. She holds degrees in communication and theatre from the National University of Cordoba. Her first novel, The Queens of Sarmiento Park, won the Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Mexico, the Grand Prix de l'Heroine Madame Figaro in France, and the Premio de Narrativa en Castellano in Spain.
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