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| Author | Cristina Rivera Garza |
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| Original title | La Cresta de Ilión |
| Translator | Sarah Booker |
| Language | Spanish |
| Published | 2002 (Tusquets Editores) |
Publication date | 2017 (The Feminist Press) (English Translation) |
| ISBN | 1558614354 |
The Iliac Crest is a novel written by Mexican novelist Cristina Rivera Garza and translated into the English language by Sarah Booker. The book was originally published in the Spanish language in 2002 before being translated into English in 2017. The book follows an unnamed narrator as he struggles with gender identity, personal identity, and the ideas of sanity, desire, fear, and freedom. It focuses on the unnamed narrator as he deals with three women who tell him he is a woman, but he attempts to debunk this idea. The novel has been met with positive reception by reviewers.