Searingly political, extravagantly stylish non-fiction from a queer Latin American literary icon, in English for the first time Pedro Lemebel made a life of political resistance. Through Chile's brutal military dictatorship to its uneven transition to democracy, he wrote of marginal lives and inconvenient truths that disturbed official narratives: the last days of trans sex workers dying of AIDS, the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the routine violence suffered by sexual and political dissidents. In a freewheeling style of baroque imagery, high camp and scabrous critique, Lemebel brought visibility and dignity to the lives of sexual minorities, the poor and the powerless. Wild Desire marks the first English translation of the major work by an iconic figure in Latin American literature. Drawing on memoir, reportage and fiction, Lemebel forged an innovative literary language to re-write his country's history from the margins. Dazzling, furious and endlessly subversive, his acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde today reverberate around the world.

Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at an historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in a fantastic and unexpected way.