Atusparia: A Novel

A brilliant and transgressive Peruvian novelist recently longlisted for the International Booker Prize offers up her cracked-mirror version of the great Russian novel

A madcap, disobedient, and brilliant novel about the power struggles and passionate upheavals that have long riven liberation movements, Atusparia follows the turbulent life of a fierce left-wing politician from her upbringing in an indigenous, Soviet-sponsored school in 1980s Peru to a high-security prison in the heart of the ...