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Extravagantly 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

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

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      Publisher Pushkin Press
      Published 5/23/2024
      ISBN-13 9781782278245
      978-1782278245
      ISBN-10 1782278249
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Extravagantly 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

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