EAN: 9780811238618

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Deep in the wilds of the New World Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun he's become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a mule driver shopkeeper soldier cabin boy and conquistador he has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement and hounded by the army he deserted this protean protagonist contemplates one more metamorphosis which just might save the new world from extinction... Based on the life of Antonio de Erauso a real figure of the Spanish conquest We Are Green and Trembling is a queer baroque satire and a historical novel that blends elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. Its rich and wildly imaginative language forms a searing criticism of conquest and colonialism religious tyranny and the treatment of women and indigenous people. It is a masterful subversion of Latin American history with a trans character at its center finding in the rainforest a magical surreal space where transformation is not only possible but necessary.

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