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My Tender Matador

My Tender Matador

by Pedro Lemebel and Katherine Silver
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/04/2025
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'One of the great novels of the past half century' GARTH GREENWELL

A rediscovered queer classic: the subversive, blazingly beautiful oddball romance between an ageing trans woman and a young revolutionary by a Latin American icon

It is spring 1986 and Santiago's streets are aflame with protests against the dictator Augusto Pinochet. From her lavishly decorated hovel, the Queen of the Corner embroiders linen for the wealthy, dreams of romance and listens to boleros to drown out the rioting and gunshots. When handsome young macho Carlos waltzes into her life, the ageing queer swiftly agrees to help with his clandestine activities. As a strange connection blooms, their fates careen towards that of the dictator himself.

Written in lushly imaginative prose that blends the sordid and the profound, the romantic and the militant, My Tender Matador is a transgressive queer classic of desire and revolution.

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.

ISBN:
9781805332336
9781805332336
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-04-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Pedro Lemebel

Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's Jose Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He is best known for his cronicas, a selection of which was published by Pushkin as A Last Supper of Queer Apostles, and one novel, My Tender Matador, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepulveda.

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