La Virgen Cabeza
Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2009. Very Good. Item #33482
ISBN: 9789872483074
Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); illustrated wraps with French flaps; 160,[2]pp. Rubbing and a couple minor smudges to covers; corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
Debut novel from the Argentinian intellectual and feminist Camara, La Virgen Cabeza tells the story of travesti and former sex worker Cleopatra, who, after being the victim of a beating and rape in a police station, sees the Virgin Mary who heals her wounds and gives her tea and medias lunas. Cleopatra subsequently becomes a spiritual guide of the cabeza slum. Praised for its humor, inventive use of language, and unflinching depiction of the Argentine underworld, La Virgen Cabeza stands as an important work of 21st-century Argentinian fiction, called "mind-blowingly good," in Publisher's Weekly's review of the English language translation.
Price: $200.00