Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador), the only novel by Pedro Lemebel, takes place in 1986 Santiago and recounts the impossible love story between an endearing, impoverished "old queen" and a young guerrilla fighter from the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, who is planning an attack against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. With Lemebel's characteristic baroque and political prose, the novel intersects desire, sexual dissidence, and insurrection in the final stretch of the Chilean military regime.

Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) was a chronicler, visual artist, and one of the most radical voices in contemporary Chilean literature; this is his only novel.

• Publisher: Seix Barral
• Author: Pedro Lemebel
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 208
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Fiction / Chilean novel

Publisher: Seix Barral · Shipping: All of Chile