Tag archieven: pampas

Mariana Travacio – All That Dies in April

Mariana Travacio All That Dies in April review, recensie en informatie roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster. Op 9 september 2025 verschijnt bij World Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman van Mariana Travacio, de uit Argentinië afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Mariana Travacio All That Dies in April review en recensie

  • “Hypnotic, almost ancestral voices echo through this novel like whispers in the wilderness, like orphan cries and “wounds of light” accompanying us on a powerful journey from which none of us will emerge unscathed.” (Agustina Bazterrica)

Mariana Travacio All That Dies in April

All That Dies in April

  • Auteur: Mariana Travacio (Argentinië)
  • Soort boek: Argentijnse roman, familieroman
  • Engelse vertaling: Samantha Schnee, Will Morningstar
  • Uitgever: World Editions
  • Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
  • Omvang: 164 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster Mariana Travacio

Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain home in search of a better life.

Lina has dreamt for years of leaving her tiny village in the drought-stricken region. Her son left long ago to find work and a better fortune. Relicario, her husband, is content to stay put in the land of his ancestors, tending to their graves. Ignoring Relicario’s pleas, a desperate Lina decides to abandon their home in search of her son, work, and water. She starts her journey on foot, and Relicario eventually follows behind, bringing a donkey and a sack with his ancestors’ bones. Both witness unspeakable violence, cruelty, and folly, but the hope of reuniting their family keeps them alive.

Poetically charged, restrained, and delicately condensed, this is a suspenseful ancestral tale rooted in a long Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality.

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara – The Adventures of China Iron

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara The Adventures of China Iron recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze Argentijnse historische roman.  In november 2019 verscheen bij Uitgeverij Charco Press de Engelse vertaling van deze roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara The Adventures of China Iron Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van deze historische roman uit Argentinië, The Adventures of China Iron. Het boek is geschreven door Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara The Adventures of China Iron

The Adventures of China Iron

  • Schrijfster: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Argentinië)
  • Soort boek: Argentijnse roman, historische roman
  • Origineel: Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017)
  • Engelse vertaling: Fiona Mackintosh, Iona Macintyre
  • Uitgever: Charco press
  • Verschenen: 2019
  • Omvang: 200 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
  • Nominatie International Booker Prize 2020

Flaptekst van deze Argentijnse historische roman

This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro’s abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. 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 its national struggles. After a clash with Colonel Hernández (the author who ‘stole’ Martín Fierro’s poems) and a drunken orgy with gauchos, they eventually find refuge and a peaceful future in a utopian indigenous community, the river- dwelling Iñchiñ people.

Seen from an ox-drawn wagon, the narrative moves through the Argentinian landscape, charting the flora and fauna of the Pampas, Gaucho culture, Argentinian nation-building and British colonial projects.

In a unique reformulation of history and literary tradition, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with humour and sophistication, re-writes Martín Fierro from a feminist, LGBT, postcolonial point of view. She creates a hilarious novel that is nevertheless incisive in its criticism of the way societies come into being, and the way they venerate mythical heroes.

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