The Adventures of China Iron
Translated from Spanish by Fiona J. Mackintosh.
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- Paperback published on 11/11/2019
- Page count: 188 pages
- ISBN: 9781916465664
Quick take
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment.
After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to the ruthless violence involved in nation-building. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic Martín Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom.
With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths.
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