Undiscovered

Resumen del libro

'An intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent' Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive'Powerful and searing' Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever DreamA provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniserIn an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder. As she peers through the glass, she sees sculptures of Indigenous faces that resemble her own - 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 begins delving into all she has inherited from her paternal line. From the brutal trail of racism and theft that Charles left behind to revelations of her father's infidelity, she traces a legacy of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own struggles with desire, love and race. Seeking relief from these personal and historical wounds, Gabriela turns to the body and desire as sources of both constraint and potential freedom.

Blending personal, historical and fictional writing, Undiscovered tells of a search for identity beyond the old stories of patriarchs and plunder. Subversive, intimate and fiercely irreverent, it builds to a powerful call for decolonization.

Biografía del autor

P B Gabriela Wiener /B (Lima, 1975) es escritora y periodista peruana residente en Madrid. Ha publicado los libros I Sexografías /I , I Llamada perdida /I , I Nueve Lunas /I , I Huaco retrato /I , I Dicen de mí /I y los poemarios I Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu /I y I Una pequeña fiesta llamada eternidad /I . Sus primeras historias se publicaron en la revista de periodismo narrativo I Etiqueta Negra /I . Fue columnista del I New York Times /I en español, redactora jefa de I Marie Claire /I I España /I y colaboradora en un gran número de medios internacionales. Publica semanalmente una columna para publico.es. Ganó el Premio Nacional de periodismo de su país con un reportaje sobre un caso de violencia de género. Es creadora de varias performances que ha puesto en escena junto a su familia. Escribió y protagonizó la obra de teatro I Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti /I . Es parte de Sudakasa, proyecto colectivo de arte y escritura migrante. I Undiscovered /I , la traducción al inglés de su novela I Huaco retrato /I fue finalista del Booker Prize Internacional 2024 y del PEN América. gabrielawiener<br>