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Rezensionen / Stimmen

Silverio Canada Memorial Prize (Shortlist)

"Queer writing at its most exhilarating." -The Times Literary Supplement

"Camara's breakout tale is mind-blowingly good." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A revelation for contemporary literature."" -Andres Neuman , author of TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY and TALKING TO OURSELVES

Globetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation -New York Times

"Camara has a powerful voice, one to be taken seriously." -Library Journal

"Cabezon Camara's exuberant range of styles truly shines." -Asymptote

"Book of the Year 2009." -Rolling Stone (Argentina)

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Praise for Gabriela Cabezon Camara

International Booker Prize (Shortlist)

"A thrilling and mystical miniature epic." -The Guardian

"[The Adventures of China Iron] reminds us, in Cabezon Camara's entrancing poetry, how magical and frankly unpleasant it is to live through history." -New York Times

"[The Adventures of China Iron] compels readers to examine critically not only the biases of the myths we celebrate, but also how they seep into our contemporary understandings of nationhood." -LA Review of Books

"Brilliantly translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre, this is a heartfelt, dreamlike paean to Argentina's past and what might have been had the pampas been left alone." -The Times Literary Supplement

"Cabezon Camara's exciting LGBTQ look at pioneers of the pampas makes for a rewarding and subversive treat." -Publishers Weekly

"Shaking loose new possibilities for how we might reshape the present precisely by unsettling something seemingly so settled as the past." -Music & Literature

"Daring." -The Financial Times

"A daring, playful story." -New Statesman

"A wonderful reading experience, filled with light, joy, discovery, friendship, and love." -The Massachusetts Review

"An unexpected ride that delivers on all accounts." -DIVA Magazine

"By disrupting pedagogical nationalist representations, Camara's story enables all those places in the margins to re-signify constructs of the Argentine people." -Wasafiri

Best books published in Latin America 2017. -New York Times (Espanol)

"A transformative adventure, wholly romantic and sublime, at times even supernatural in its message of discovery." -Books and Bao

"A thrilling book that has a little of everything that I look for in a novel." -SubText

"10 Best Translated Books 2019" -Books and Bao

Globetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation -New York Times

"It's moving and intelligent and funny and all of it is fun (so much fun)." -Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore

"Best books dealing with feminism, sisterhood and queerness" -Pagina/12

"With a touch of whimsy, 'The Adventures of China Iron' rewrites a historical narrative and renders spaces inclusive." -Daily Star

"Best Books of 2017" -Los inRockuptibles

"20 Best Latin American books 2017" -El Pais