Wiener has rescued an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent, with her trademark intelligence and irreverent humor. Her prose, sober and forward, is fresh air; her view allows us to be testimonies of Latin America's cycles of plundering and looting -- Valeria Luiselli, author of 'Lost Children Archive'

[Undiscovered] captivated me... Powerful and searing, this novel snaps, bucks, heals, and snaps again -- Samanta Schweblin, author of 'Fever Dream'

Powerful, genre-transcending... A quiet, lucid triumph - Irish Times

Perhaps the most irreverent and daring voice of the new literary generation of Latin American women - New York Times

Undiscovered's beautiful blend of fiction and personal feeling on everything from sex, to death, to Peru's traumatic history to France's heritage-colonial industry could not be more contemporary, vital and important, or expressed in more dynamic and immersive prose -- Preti Taneja, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning 'We That Are Young'

The best book that I've read about ancestry and love in the contemporary postcolonial condition -- Paul B. Preciado, author of 'An Apartment on Uranus'

Gabriela Wiener's ease and grace allow her in Undiscovered to talk about family, desire, racism, colonialism and being a migrant both tenderly and sharply, vulnerable but strong like her beautiful writing -- Mariana Enríquez, author of 'Our Share of Night'

A major voice in Peruvian literature... Undiscovered has an appealingly raw, confessional tone, but its prose is highly polished - NPR

[An] open-ended meditation, which wrestles questions of heritage and colonialism -- Francesca Peacock - Daily Mail

A rollicking decolonial fact-fiction remix of her family's histories, the life of her great-great-great grandfather, the explorer Charles Wiener, and how all this time plays out in her own body, and her current life, and polyamorous household in Madrid - Electric Literature

Following the trail of Gabriela Wiener, walking behind her, dreaming of catching up with her, is one of the few luxuries we have left -- Alejandro Zambra, author of 'Chilean Poet'

Incisive... Wiener shifts seamlessly from the intimate to the historical, often with humor - Publishers Weekly

A collective autobiography in a decolonial key; a settling of scores that is unafraid of self-criticism; a language that jolts and startles -- Cristina Rivera Garza, author of 'Liliana's Invincible Summer'

Gabriela Wiener is pure rebellion, humour and tenderness at the same time -- Sara Mesa, author of 'Four by Four'

Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Her books include Nine Moons, a memoir on pregnancy, and Sexographies, a collection of gonzo journalism about contemporary sex culture. Her work has been widely published in anthologies and translated into six languages. Wiener won a Peruvian National Award of Journalism for a report on violence against women. Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan. Her translations include Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim award, and Boulder by Eva Baltasar, which was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.