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October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
192 pages
ISBN: 0063256681
EAN: 9780063256682
Kindle: B0BPSXJ4N9
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An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer
delivers her stunning English breakthrough, blending fact
and fiction in an autobiographical novel that faces the
legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to
both the colonized and colonizer.
Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener finds herself
confronted by her complicated family heritage. Visiting an
exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, she peers at
countless sculptures of Indigenous faces each nearly
identical to her own and recognizes herself in them –
but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own
great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles
Wiener. Wiener’s “grand” contribution to
history: the near rediscovery of Machu Picchu, nearly 4,000
plundered artifacts, a book about Peru, and a bastard child.
In the wake of her father's death, Gabriela begins to
unpack the legacy that is her birthright. From the brutal
racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles's book to her
father's infidelity, she traces a cycle of abandonment,
jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own
personal struggles with desire, love, and race. As she
explores the history of two continents, her investigation
brings her closer and closer to the more intimate realm
where both colonizer and colonized ultimately
converge– the body– and her own desire to free
it. Guided by a penetrating eye and fearsome wit,
Undiscovered embarks the reader on a quest to pick up the
pieces of something shattered long ago in the hopes of
making it whole once again.
Probing wounds both personal and historical, Undiscovered
is a culminating labor for our age, an earnest attempt to
decolonize one’s own desire.
Translated by Julia Sanches
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