Undiscovered, Gabriela Wiener
Undiscovered, Gabriela Wiener
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Undiscovered
A Novel

Author: Gabriela Wiener

Narrator: Elena Rey

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive Award-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this ""appealingly raw"" (NPR) and ""incisive"" (Publishers Weekly) work of autofiction that explores colonialism through one woman’s family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them—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 returns to Peru. In alternating strands, she begins to probe her father’s infidelity, her own polyamorous relationship, and the history of her colonial ancestor, unpacking the legacy that is her birthright. From the eye-patched persona her father adopted to carry out his double life to the brutal racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles’s book, she traces a cycle of abandonment, jealousy, and fraud, in turn reframing her own personal struggles with desire, love, and race. Translated by Julia Sanches

About Gabriela Wiener

Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Sexographies, a collection of gonzo journalism about contemporary sex culture. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and translated into six languages. In 2018, she was awarded Peru’s National Journalism Award for her part in an investigative report on gender violence. She currently resides in Madrid.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Schwarzer_Elch on February 11, 2022

Ser peruano es ser racista. Esa es una de nuestras grandes verdades nacionales. Uno de mis primeros recuerdos se remonta a mi fiesta de cuatro años, durante la cual, mi mayor preocupación, era que mis amigos no descubrieran quién era mi papá. No me preocupaba que lo vieran a él, sino que, al hacerlo......more

Goodreads review by June on May 06, 2022

Qué capa es Gabriela Wiener. En algunas páginas quiero abrazarla y acompañarla a hacer pollo frito, en otras quiero gritarle YO TAMBIÉN GABI y obligarla a que me pague la terapia porque su libro me destruyó. En fin, inolvidable realmente, excelente prosa, increíble formato, siempre tan asombrosa.......more

Goodreads review by Meike on May 12, 2024

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 The theoretical construction and narrative intent of this slim novel are intriguing, but the result left me somewhat cold. Wiener's autofictional effort dives into her familial heritage, which is overshadowed by her ancestor Charles Wiener. Charles w......more

Goodreads review by Milly on December 10, 2021

Logra molestarme. Inquietarme. Sorprenderme. Luego, de nuevo, molestarme. Tiene una prosa increíble, mordaz, tremendamente honesta, y es muy astuta al crear este libro, sobre los indígenas y la infidelidad, sobre el poliamor y el sexo, sobre lo que nos define y lo que hacemos para encontrarnos. Me cae......more

Goodreads review by Betina on January 24, 2023

Leo a Gabriela Wiener desde hace años, en prensa, sus libros, difíciles de encontrar. 'Sexografías' pude leerlo gracias a los favores de una biblioteca que ordenaba, una fortuna. Huaco Retrato sabía que se las traería. Sabía que era capital encontrarlo, y compré una edición boliviana de Dum Dum edit......more