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- Title
- Undiscovered / Gabriela Wiener ; translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
- Author
- Wiener, Gabriela, 1975-
- Publication
- New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-26 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sanches, Julia
- Description
- 183 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them - 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 returns to Peru. In alternating strands, she begins to probe her father's infidelity, her own polyamorous relationship, and the history of her colonial ancestor, unpacking the legacy that is her birthright. From the eye-patched persona her father adopted to carry out his double life to the brutal racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles's book, she traces a cycle of abandonment, jealousy, and fraud, in turn reframing her own personal struggles with desire, love, and race. Probing wounds both personal and historical, Wiener's provocative novel embarks the reader on a quest to pick up the pieces of something shattered long ago in the hope of making it whole once again."--
- Uniform Title
- Huaco retrato. English
- Alternative Title
- Huaco retrato.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published as Huaco retrato in Spain in 2022 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial."--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-26
- ISBN
- 9780063256682
- 0063256681
- 9780063256705
- 0063256703
- 9780063256729 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780063256712 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023030824
- OCLC
- 1390918249
- Author
- Wiener, Gabriela, 1975- author.
- Title
- Undiscovered / Gabriela Wiener ; translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
- Edition
- First HarperVia edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Sanches, Julia, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wiener, Gabriela, 1975- Undiscovered First HarperVia edition. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubishers, 2024 9780063256729 (DLC) 2023030825
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-26