Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Tu as vu le visage de Dieu – Romance de la Noire blonde

You Saw God’s Face – Romance of the Black Blonde

April 6, 2022
Novel
200 pages
18 €
9782377561346
978-2-3775-6134-6
Translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Guillaume Contré
																Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Tu as vu le visage de Dieu – Romance de la Noire blonde
																Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Tu as vu le visage de Dieu – Romance de la Noire blonde

Beya, in Tu as vu le visage de Dieu, a sort of contemporary and feminist retelling of Sleeping Beauty, tries to escape from the prostitution ring that kidnapped her. In Romance de la Noire blonde, a young artist named Gabi sets herself on fire to avoid eviction from her apartment in the midst of a financial crisis. Disfigured, she becomes both a work of art and an emblem of the popular struggle. These two short novels form, with Pleines de grâce, an “Oscura” trilogy, about the reversal of victims, who fight against individual and collective exploitation.
With a language free of everything, mixing the Bible, Kill Bill, mythologies, to the triviality of everyday life, Gabriela Cabezon Cámara deploys a powerful language, poetic and political, shaping our contemporary heroines and plunges us directly into the depths of the margins.

The author

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in San Isidro (Buenos Aires) in 1968. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). In 2013, she received a Writing in Residence Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been editor of Clarín’s Culture supplement and collaborates with media such as Crisis, Página / 12, Fierro, Eterna Cadencia and Anfibia magazine. She is the author of the novels The Adventures of China Iron (2017, Ogre 2021) and Pleines de grâce (2009, Ogre 2020) and the novels Romance de la Negra rubia (2014) and Le viste la cara a Dios (2011). A feminist and LGBT activist, she is also one of the instigators of the Ni Una Menos movement that fights feminicide and violence against women.

Strong points

By the author of The Adventures of China Iron, finalist for the Prix Médicis étranger 2021.

Tu as vu le visage de Dieu is a rebellious cry against the trafficking of women.

Two powerful novels about the revolt of the victims.

Each of Gabriela Cabezon Cámara’s novels explores a human, social and political truth.

Bibliography

Pleines de grâce (2020)

Les aventures de China Iron (2021)

April 6, 2022
Novel
200 pages
18 €
9782377561346
978-2-3775-6134-6
Translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Guillaume Contré