The writer and journalist Marco Sifuentes presents his fourth book, Peru Bizarro (2022), which compiles 79 episodes and anecdotes from Peruvian history; with acerbic humour the book questions everything that is taught in history classes. Behind the country’s official history, with its conservative, centrist, white, Catholic and heteronormative biases, there is a diverse, complex Peru, characterized by being abandoned by the state, and the invisibilization or even destruction of ancestral, Afro-descendent and dissident ways of being. The book reconstructs the territory’s memory in a way that goes beyond the capital and its incomplete story of what it means to be Peruvian. In conversation with the writer Jeremías Gamboa.
