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- Paperback Aug 29, 2023 | 9780349016474 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9780349016467 | RRP $29.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 27, 2022 | 9780349016450 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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- Paperback Aug 29, 2023 | 9780349016474 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9780349016467 | RRP $29.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 27, 2022 | 9780349016450 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 14, 2022 | 9780349016443 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback Aug 29, 2023 | 9780349016474 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 12, 2022 | 9780349016467 | RRP $29.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Sep 27, 2022 | 9780349016450 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 14, 2022 | 9780349016443 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
A richly imaginative, surreal and deeply moving novel from Argentina about a group of travesti sex workers who adopt a baby boy
The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful novel about violence, exclusion and love
'A fragment of the future' Edouard Louis
'Ferocious and magical' Torrey Peters, Guardian
'It will break your heart' Mariana Enriquez
'Naked, glorious storytelling' Claire Oshetsky
'A literary sensation' Rolling Stone
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.
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize
Winner of the Premio de Narrativa en Castellano
Winner of the Grand Prix de l'heroine Madame Figaro
Praise for The Queens Of Sarmiento Park
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A literary sensation - Rolling Stone (Argentina)
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A magical novel ... raw and full of love - eldiario.es (Spain)
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Confronting, radical, hopeful, The Queens of Sarmiento Park does one of the most important things a book (or a life) can do. It looks at all the rubble and the dirt and asks: "Can we make anything beautiful from this?"
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An important book: fun, tragic, political and full of marvel ... It will break your heart and at the same time make you want to laugh and dance
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From a life reminiscent of a Pedro Almodovar film, Camila Sosa Villada has drawn an incredible piece of literature - Vanity Fair (France)
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Every so often, a slim book absolutely clobbers you with its exuberance and beauty - for me, this was that book
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The Queens of Sarmiento Park blew Argentina's collective mind with its exquisite power, tenderness, and riotous imagination
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A beautiful novel, moving, disturbing, raw and honest. In skilfully rendered language, charged with poetic energy, it takes us deep into the world of trans prostitution and explores the violent and tender bonds that unite the women who inhabit it
Camila Sosa Villada
Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (CA rdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor and maid. She holds degrees in communication and theatre from the National University of CA rdoba. Her first novel, The Queens of Sarmiento Park, won the Premio Sor Juana InA s de la Cruz in Mexico, the Grand Prix de l'HA roA ne Madame Figaro in France, and the Premio de Narrativa en Castellano in Spain.
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