Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's 'We Are Green and Trembling' is fecund and occasionally stagnant. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026. Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2025.

6/10

We Are Green and Trembling: From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the same Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since transforming into Antonio, he has had monumental adventures and taken on numerous guises. He has been a mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, cabin boy and conquistador. He has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is looking after two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement. But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction. 

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