Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Gabriela Wiener’s ‘Undiscovered’ is self-important, monotonous, borderline incoherent, and cringe. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024.

2/10

Undiscovered: Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. Peering 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. From the brutal trail of racism and theft Charles was responsible for, to revelations of her father’s infidelity, she traces a legacy of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, and questions its impact on her own struggles with desire, love and race in a polyamorous relationship.

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