Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The
pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence
in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is
conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on
a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found
friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with
a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of
the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of
Argentina's richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages,
as well as to the ruthless violence involved in nation-building.
This subversive retelling of Argentina's foundational gaucho epic
Martin Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the
living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting
freedom. With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezon Camara
has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive
critique of national myths.
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