Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Pleines de grâce

Full of Grace

March 19, 2020
Novel
208 pages
140 × 180 mm
18 €
9782377560639
978-2-3775-6063-9
Translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Guillaume Contré
																Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Pleines de grâce
																Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Pleines de grâce

Pleines de grâce is a cumbia opera, funny, violent and raw, illuminated by the solar character of Cleo. Without a doubt one of the great Argentine queer novels.

Pleines de grâce is the flamboyant story of Qüity, a tough young journalist from Buenos Aires, and Cleopatra, a transvestite who, after giving up prostitution following the apparition of the Virgin Mary, begins, with an army of whores, traffickers and thieves, to transform her shantytown of El Poso into an autonomous community. Forced to flee after the local government razed the shantytown to the ground, Qüity and Cleo, with whom she is pregnant, then recount their adventures from Miami. In this intense novel, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara succeeds in expressing the hidden epic of so many anonymous lives which, defying the logic imposed by the established order, invent new ways of living, as a couple, a family and a community.

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.

March 19, 2020
Novel
208 pages
140 × 180 mm
18 €
9782377560639
978-2-3775-6063-9
Translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Guillaume Contré