The Queens Of Sarmiento Park av Camila Sosa Villada

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<p><b>The Argentine literary sensation that has taken the Spanish-speaking world by storm: a dark, surreal and beautiful novel about violence, exclusion and love</b><br><br>''It''s a fragment of the future'' <b>Edouard Louis</b><br><br>''Ferocious and magical'' <b>Torrey Peters, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>''It will break your heart'' <b>Mariana Enriquez</b><br><br><br><i>Auntie Encarna''s is the queerest boarding house in the world.</i><br><br>For Camila, it is a refuge, and the <i>travesti </i>who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down.<br><br>Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again.<br><br>With a cast of lar