Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize (Shortlist)"Queer writing at its most exhilarating." —The Times Literary Supplement"Cámara’s breakout tale is mind-blowingly good." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"A revelation for contemporary literature."" —Andrés Neuman , author of TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY and TALKING TO OURSELVESGlobetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation —New York Times"Cámara has a powerful voice, one to be taken seriously." —Library Journal"Cabezón Cámara’s exuberant range of styles truly shines." —Asymptote"Book of the Year 2009." —Rolling Stone (Argentina)**********Praise for Gabriela Cabezón CámaraInternational Booker Prize (Shortlist)"A thrilling and mystical miniature epic."** —The Guardian**"[The Adventures of China Iron] reminds us, in Cabezón Cámara’s entrancing poetry, how magical and frankly unpleasant it is to live through history."** —New York Times**"[The Adventures of China Iron] compels readers to examine critically not only the biases of the myths we celebrate, but also how they seep into our contemporary understandings of nationhood."** —LA Review of Books**"Brilliantly translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre, this is a heartfelt, dreamlike paean to Argentina’s past and what might have been had the pampas been left alone."** —The Times Literary Supplement**"Cabezón Cámara’s exciting LGBTQ look at pioneers of the pampas makes for a rewarding and subversive treat."** —Publishers Weekly**"Shaking loose new possibilities for how we might reshape the present precisely by unsettling something seemingly so settled as the past."** —Music & Literature**"Daring."** —The Financial Times**"A daring, playful story."** —New Statesman**"A wonderful reading experience, filled with light, joy, discovery, friendship, and love."** —The Massachusetts Review**"An unexpected ride that delivers on all accounts."** —DIVA Magazine**"By disrupting pedagogical nationalist representations, Cámara’s story enables all those places in the margins to re-signify constructs of the Argentine people."** —WasafiriBest books published in Latin America 2017. —New York Times (Español)"A transformative adventure, wholly romantic and sublime, at times even supernatural in its message of discovery." —Books and Bao**"A thrilling book that has a little of everything that I look for in a novel."** —SubText**"10 Best Translated Books 2019"** —Books and BaoGlobetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation —New York Times**"It’s moving and intelligent and funny and all of it is fun (so much fun)."** —Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore**"Best books dealing with feminism, sisterhood and queerness"** —Pagina/12**"With a touch of whimsy, ‘The Adventures of China Iron’ rewrites a historical narrative and renders spaces inclusive."** —Daily Star**"Best Books of 2017"** —Los inRockuptibles**"20 Best Latin American books 2017"** —El País**

Second title by this author, The Adventures of China Iron , was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker PrizeGabriela Cabezón Cámara is one of Argentina's leading activists, known for her work on gender violence Chosen as Book of the Year by Rolling Stone Argentina in 2009 Shortlisted for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize at the Gijón Detective Week (Spain) Residencies in Berlin and Berkeley and has twice been featured at the Edinburgh International Book FestivalMarketing PlansSocial media campaignGalleys availableCo-op availableAdvance reader copies (print and digital)National media campaignTargeted bookseller mailingSimultaneous eBook launch

Atoms, molecules whipped into a frenzy by random chance, that’s all life is. This was the kind of profound insight that filled my head out there on the island in the Delta, half-naked and without any of my things, not even a computer, just a little bit of cash and the credit cards I couldn’t use until we left Argentina. My thoughts were rotten: sticks, beer bottles, lily pads, used condoms, crumbling docks and headless dolls, a collage of losses discarded by the tide. I felt like a castaway who’d barely survived a shipwreck. Although I’ve learnt by now that no one ever really survives a shipwreck. The ones who drown end up dead and the ones who are saved spend the rest of their lives drowning.