Pedro Lemebel

‘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...

Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time. "When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in the cesspit or in nothingness, Pedro Lemebel will still be a star." - Roberto Bolaño "I speak from my difference" wrote Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer who became an...