This fiercely imaginative reworking of colonial history...written in luminous, wild, lyrical and inventive language... is at once playful and devastating, tender and enraging. This imaginative novel critiques familiar narratives of colonialism and empire while offering moments of startling beauty and transformation. It is a vivid and audacious story that reclaims history through language itself -- International Booker Prize judges, 2026 A bold and compassionate reimagining of an extraordinary queer life * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2025* * A hallucinatory, innocent, fanciful and redemptive book. Cabezón Cámaras 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 * So sharp, so urgent, so brave. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is one of the most authentic voices writing in Spanish today, and among her many talents is one that's especially hard to find: not only does she challenge and incite us, not only does she confront the darkness, but she also gives us in return the subversive courage to think of ourselves as more human, more alive, and more luminous than ever -- Samanta Schweblin Gabriela Cabezón Cámaras writing is singular in the Spanish language: an intrepid pulse that shakes and disarms us in the face of the wordless power, both formidable and innocent, of the jungle and the creatures it portrays -- Fernanda Melchor Profoundly resonant with our current moment Offers a searing critique of modernitys colonial echoes: a resurgence of far-right ideology, cultural erasure, and gender-based oppression ... A story that is not only inclusive but also redemptiveanchored 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 Cámaras entrancing poetry reminds us how magical and frankly unpleasant it is to live through history * New York Times * This is the truth of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's literature: it's capable of questioning the very conception of the Western world through beauty. -- Brenda Navarro Myers translates Cámaras lyrical prose to gorgeous effect, turning even the most brutal of Antonios adventures into a beautiful reading experience... transformative writingfor character and reader alike * The Rumpus * Polyphonic... A seamless, fever-dreamy exposé of inhumane colonialism, religiosity, and genocide * Booklist * Sensuous and searinga 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 Camáras moral commitment shines through she has a tender love for her marginalized subjects, and for the jungle that they call home * Times Literary Supplement *
