The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the
Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful
novel about violence, exclusion and love 'The most important book
I've read on sexuality since Jean Genet' Edouard Louis 'Ferocious
and magical' Torrey Peters, Guardian 'It will break your heart'
Mariana Enriquez Auntie 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. With a
cast of larger-than-life, unforgettable characters, The Queens of
Sarmiento Park combines brutal, unflinching realism with flourishes
of surrealism to tell a story about the clash of hope with
prejudice and fear. Wildly imaginative, darkly funny and
devastatingly sad, it is a queer fairy tale about sex work, gender
identity and chosen family; an anguished howl of pain and rage; and
an unruly hymn to love and care on the outskirts of society. 'A
beautiful novel, moving, disturbing, raw and honest' Fernanda
Melchor, author of Hurricane Season 'Sosa Villada's storytelling is
guttural, tender, humorous and punk ... an aesthetic that drips
with the oral rhythms swept up from the dark streets of Cordoba
into perfect streams of poetic prose' Julian Delgado Lopera 'Fun,
tragic, political and full of marvel ... It will break your heart
and at the same time make you want to laugh and dance' Mariana
Enriquez
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