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Book SynopsisExtravagantly stylish, searingly critical dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time
'He speaks brilliantly for a difference that refuses to disappear' Garth Greenwell
'Astonishing and tender and quite outrageous... What a powerful, mould-breaking voice' Tomasz Jedrowski
I speak from my difference wrote Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer who became an icon of resistance and queer transgression across Latin America. His innovative essays-known as crónicas-combine memoir, reportage, history and fiction to bring visibility and dignity to the lives of sexual minorities, the poor and the powerless.
In a baroque, freewheeling style that fused political urgency with playfulness, resistance with camp, Lemebel shone a light on lives and events that many wanted to suppress: the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the queer sex and community that bloomed in Santiago's hidden corners and t
