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Undiscovered : Longlisted For the International Booker Prize 2024
[Hardback - 2023]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Pushkin Press Uk | ISBN: 9781782279327 | Pages: 192
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‘Undiscovered captivated me… searing’ Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream

‘Powerful, genre-transcending... A quiet, lucid triumph’ Irish Times, ‘The best translated fiction of 2023’

A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman s family ties to both colonised and coloniser

In an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder. As she peers through the glass, she sees sculptures of Indigenous faces that resemble her own - but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener.

In the wake of her father s death, Gabriela begins delving into all she has inherited from her paternal line. From the brutal trail of racism and theft that Charles left behind to revelations of her father s infidelity, she traces a legacy of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own struggles with desire, love and race. Seeking relief from these personal and historical wounds, Gabriela turns to the body and desire as sources of both constraint and potential freedom.

Blending personal, historical and fictional writing, Undiscovered tells of a search for identity beyond the old stories of patriarchs and plunder. Subversive, intimate and fiercely irreverent, it builds to a powerful call for decolonization.

Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Nine Moons, a memoir on pregnancy, and Sexographies, a collection of gonzo journalism about contemporary sex culture. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and translated into six languages. Wiener won a Peruvian National Award of Journalism for a report on violence against women.

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