GABRIELA WIENER presents her book 'ATUSPARIA'. The Luzzy

 

 

A leftist politician who is a victim of lawfare finds herself imprisoned in a high-security prison in the depths of the Amazon jungle. She calls herself Atusparia, like the leader of the Peruvian indigenous resistance in the 19th century and like the delirious communist school where she studied in the throes of the Cold War.

. Love in the age of capitalism engulfs her in a spiral of drugs and frenetic sexuality that will distance her from the old ideals of her upbringing until the call of her roots will lead her to embark on a journey to the foot of Lake Titicaca and blend in with the revolutionary hero of her childhood. There are no traceable precedents for this new novel by Gabriela Wiener. Atusparia is groundbreaking and exquisite; satirical, self-functional and slightly futuristic.

. Between social realism and poetic fantasy, Wiener makes a masterful leap in his literature and shows us, in his post-indigenist "great Russian novel", how hierarchies and power struggles reach emancipatory movements, shattering them.

Gabriela Wiener is the author of the books Sexo grafías, Mozart con priapismo y otras historias, Llamada perdida, Dicen de mí and the book of poems Ejercicios para el hardecimiento del espíritu. Her texts have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, German, French and Italian.

She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine in Spain and today regularly publishes opinion columns for the El Diario website , Vice and for the Spanish-language content of The New York Times, as well as a video column in La Mula. She won her country's National Journalism Award for an investigative report on a case of gender violence.

She is the creator of several literary performances that she has staged with her family and the play Qué loca enamorarme yo de ti. She currently resides in Madrid.