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We Are Green and Trembling (National Book Award Winner)

By Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Robin Myers (Translator)
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By Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Robin Myers (Translator)
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A runaway conquistador grapples with a monumental decision in We Are Green and Trembling, a subversive and satirical story of colonialism, hope and history from an acclaimed author.

Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a m...

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