by Sylvia Iparraguirre · METAILIE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864244080
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«La Terre de feu» is the historical novel by Sylvia Iparraguirre, published by Métailié in 2002 in paperback (201 pages, in French).
In 1865, John William Guevara is summoned to a strange trial: that of Jemmy Button, a Yamana indigenous man who years earlier was taken to England by Captain Fitz Roy to be «civilized». Between the mestizo and the young Yamana, a friendship emerges that reflects the clash between two cultures, in a novel that recreates a historical episode of colonization in Tierra del Fuego.
Translation from Spanish (Argentine) by Bertille Hausberg. Original work: «La Tierra del Fuego» (1998), winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in the encounter between cultures and in the real episodes of 19th-century Patagonia.
Sylvia Iparraguirre is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
