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'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 Dream

A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser

In 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

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    Publisher: Pushkin Press
    Publication Date: 8/1/2024
    ISBN13: 9781782279334, 978-1782279334
    ISBN10: 1782279334

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    '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 Dream

    A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser

    In 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

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