**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026**

**Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**

A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso

'Playful and devastating, tender and enraging' INTERNATIONAL BOOKER JUDGES, 2026

'Luminous' SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN

‘Bold and compassionate’ Financial Times

From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, he’s become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement. But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction.

Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation.

'Profoundly resonant… the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to erase’ Chicago Review of Books

‘Sensuous and searing – a queer anticolonial picaresque’ Publishers Weekly

‘Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s writing is singular in the Spanish language’ FERNANDA MELCHOR

Translated by Robin Myers

"A bold and compassionate reimagining of an extraordinary queer life" - Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2025*

"A hallucinatory, innocent, fanciful and redemptive book. Cabezón Cámara’s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation, a piece of real-unreal colonial apocrypha, glowing white hot, dancing like the heart of a pyre" - Financial Times

"Sumptuously translated by Robin Myers, We Are Green and Trembling is strikingly relevant to the present day. Cabezón Cámara uses history to illuminate and interrogate threats to trans representation and, in parallel, to interrogate the enduring, humanising effects of colonisation... [an] epic in miniature... a mercurial tale for all time" - Irish Times

"Profoundly resonant with our current moment … Offers a searing critique of modernity’s colonial echoes: a resurgence of far-right ideology, cultural erasure, and gender-based oppression ... A story that is not only inclusive but also redemptive—anchored in the richness of language, the beauty of the natural world, and the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to erase" - Chicago Review of Books

"Cabezón Cámara’s entrancing poetry reminds us how magical and frankly unpleasant it is to live through history - New York Times

"Myers translates Cámara’s lyrical prose to gorgeous effect, turning even the most brutal of Antonio’s adventures into a beautiful reading experience... transformative writing—for character and reader alike" - The Rumpus

"Polyphonic... A seamless, fever-dreamy exposé of inhumane colonialism, religiosity, and genocide" - Booklist

"Sensuous and searing—a queer anticolonial picaresque" - Publishers Weekly

"At the same time futuristic and ancestral. Its luminous prose pulses several times to moments of absolute radiance" - World Literature Today

"The intensity of Gabriela Cabezón Camára’s moral commitment shines through… she has a tender love for her marginalized subjects, and for the jungle that they call home" - Times Literary Supplement