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<em><strong>La inocencia de las sardinas</strong></em>

La inocencia de las sardinas

Debut novel by Venezuelan journalist Etxenara Mendicoa set in Naiguatá, a coastal town in Vargas state. Through fictional characters, it traces the…
<em><strong>La edad infinita</strong></em>

La edad infinita

Debut novel by Spanish poet and writer Miriam Reyes (Ourense, 1974), winner of the Premio Nacional de Poesía 2025, published by Editorial Tránsito in…
<em><strong>El brillo de los niños</strong></em>

El brillo de los niños

Novel by Venezuelan writer Gustavo Valle (Caracas, 1967), resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina, published by Pre-Textos (Valencia) in 2025. A…
<em><strong>The Inventor</strong></em>

The Inventor

Novel by Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy (Paris, 1986), son of a Venezuelan mother and Chilean father, published in Spanish translation by…
<em><strong>Diario inútil</strong></em>

Diario inútil

This book doesn’t set out to confirm anything the reader hasn’t already suspected—but it does so from an unexpected angle. What is a diary when it…
<em><strong>Un animal impronunciable</strong></em>

Un animal impronunciable

An Unpronounceable Animal explores the feminine in its most savage and primitive form. Through its stories, it invites us to get lost in unexplored…
<em><strong>Sacrifices: Stories</strong></em>

Sacrifices: Stories

Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind people familiar with urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists cruising the avenues,…
<em><strong>The night</strong></em>

The night

Caracas, 2010. The revolutionary government exploits the energy crisis to decree power outages that, for hours, black out the entire country. During…
<em><strong>Venecos</strong></em>

Venecos

"Venecos" is a derogatory way of referring to Venezuelans, who in these magnificent stories have emigrated to different cities around the world, such…
Muerte en el Guaire

Muerte en el Guaire

Sere is a journalist from Caracas who leaves her job to open a restaurant in Santa Monica. Olga is an old friend living in exile in London. In brief…
<em><strong>El accidente</strong></em>

El accidente

Olga, a Venezuelan woman who has lived in London for years, returns to Venezuela to bury her sister Carla, who has just been murdered, just in the…
<em><strong>Llévame esta noche</strong></em>

Llévame esta noche

David de Sousa returns to Caracas to be with his ailing mother in what appear to be her final days. After several years away, this visit opens the…
<em><strong>Malasangre</strong></em>

Malasangre

Venezuela, 1921. Diana, the fourteen-year-old daughter of an elitist family from Caracas, discovers she has inherited the hematophagy disorder from…
<em><strong>Uno nueve siete cuatro: cuentos en clotoides</strong></em>

Uno nueve siete cuatro: cuentos en clotoides

These stories explore different possibilities of human relationships, mating, reproduction, coexistence, and love. They range from the sexual and…
<em><strong>El revuelo de los insectos</strong></em>

El revuelo de los insectos

Two men in uniform flee through a tangled jungle. They are deserters. They are lovers. Lovers fleeing toward freedom as they enter each other's…
<em><strong>Escribir afuera: cuentos de intemperies y querencias</strong></em>

Escribir afuera: cuentos de intemperies y querencias

A woman travels to France to seek family roots in a small town, which will allow her to obtain a foreign passport to escape Venezuela; another visits…
<em><strong>El tercer país</strong></em>

El tercer país

Everything takes place on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her…
<em><strong>Arqueología sonámbula</strong></em>

Arqueología sonámbula

An experimental book that, through autofiction and other literary mechanisms, explores the ruin and deterioration of a revolutionary experiment in…
<em><strong>Una tarde con campanas</strong></em>

Una tarde con campanas

Una tarde con campanas is a novel about immigration. First, there's the origin: Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, or the…
<em><strong>En las ruinas</strong></em>

En las ruinas

The death that results from the reunion of an old group of friends, the final days of a writer shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War,…
<em><strong>El baile de madame Kalalú</strong></em>

El baile de madame Kalalú

Emma leads a risky existence as the head of an organization dedicated to stealing jewels and works of art. In love with a man she met one night in…
<em><strong>El adiós de Telémaco : una rapsodia llamada Venezuela: antología</strong></em>

El adiós de Telémaco : una rapsodia llamada Venezuela: antología

The recent spotlight that recently brights over venezuelan literature does justice to what is a first-rate verbal universe. Under the invocation of…
<em><strong>Chulapos mambo</strong></em>

Chulapos mambo

Alejandro wants to leave his wife behind to live happily with his lover. Simao needs money, and Henry has left everything—country, job, and family—to…
<strong><em>El informe sobre Clara. Nochebosque</em></strong>

El informe sobre Clara. Nochebosque

Paula Sorsky, a character who also appeared in Nochebosque (a novel included in this book) and later in Renacen las sombras (La Huerta Grande, 2021),…
<em><strong>Cuentos a patadas</strong></em>

Cuentos a patadas

An inter-school tournament is a lot like a World Cup. You could ask David, who has been chosen as a starter on his team. The plays get increasingly…
<em><strong>El arreo de los vientos</strong></em>

El arreo de los vientos

In ¨The Herding of the Winds¨ - as in ¨Exile on the Bowery¨ (1999) or in ¨Creatures of the Night¨ (2000), the fantastic becomes a narrative resource…
<em><strong>Conejo y conejo</strong></em>

Conejo y conejo

There have never been better friends than Rabbit and Rabbit. One loves to dance; the other, on the other hand, is a little shy. Rabbit always knows if…
<strong><em>Salvar la frontera: muestra de cuentos de autores venezolanos migrantes</em></strong>

Salvar la frontera: muestra de cuentos de autores venezolanos migrantes

Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to…
<em><strong>Happening</strong></em>

Happening

A traffic accident and a hit-and-run will unleash situations worthy of an existential thriller. Álex Kantor thus begins a journey to the arid…
<em><strong>Casa de ciudad</strong></em>

Casa de ciudad

Casa de ciudad presents a cast of outsiders—trans people, AIDS patients, disillusioned communists, and film workers—inhabiting a crumbling city house.…
<em><strong>Liubliana</strong></em>

Liubliana

Ljubljana is the name of a city, but also the memory of a passion; the secret hiding place the desperate trust in; the only refuge of hope. Ljubljana…
<strong><em>Blue label / Etiqueta azul</em></strong>

Blue label / Etiqueta azul

Eugenia Blanc is a young middle-class woman from Caracas who wants to leave the country for good, fed up with the dull and unbearable city life. Luis…
<em><strong>El síndrome de Lisboa</strong></em>

El síndrome de Lisboa

Lisbon Syndrome takes place in a near future or an alternate present. The collapse of communications and the widespread failure of technology rumors…
<em><strong>Transilvania unplugged</strong></em>

Transilvania unplugged

On the base of a story that manifests veracity and with the support of an investigation about the consequences of an epoch filled with…
<em><strong>Que hacer un domingo</strong></em>

Que hacer un domingo

What to Do on a Sunday? follows a week in the lives of six friends whose original way of living revolves around art and adventure. Sitja’s work in…
<em><strong>Crema Paraíso</strong></em>

Crema Paraíso

Emiliano receives a lucrative offer from a German production company to take part in a television show. The only condition is that his father must…
<em><strong>Atrás queda la tierra</strong></em>

Atrás queda la tierra

A novel that tells us to not look away from the horror that everybody who is forced to migrate has to live. While her world crumbles completely, the…
<em><strong>Desde la salvajada</strong></em>

Desde la salvajada

The death of the mother marks the beginning of this collection of stories, all narrated through a veil of confusion. What must one do to emerge in a…
<em><strong>Rating</strong></em>

Rating

How far is television willing to go in its desperate pursuit of ratings? This question seems to permeate every page of this novel. Rating explores the…
<strong><em>La correspondance des autres</em></strong>

La correspondance des autres

Aranguren is married. His wife is an administrator and serves as deputy director at an insurance brokerage firm. They have a four-year-old daughter,…
<em><strong>El fin de la tristeza</strong></em>

El fin de la tristeza

The further you are from the news, the closer you are to happiness. That’s how Gabriel Medina thinks and lives. Until the day, unexpectedly, the…
<em><strong>Los terneros</strong></em>

Los terneros

Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind men who know the urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists riding through city avenues,…
<em><strong>Los escapistas</strong></em>

Los escapistas

"In Los escapistas by Fedosy Santaella, readers will find themselves astonished, frightened, enraged, amused, and ultimately drawn back into the…
<em><strong>Los verdaderos paraísos</strong></em>

Los verdaderos paraísos

"A young man arrives in a remote Brazilian town following the trail of a little-known episode in the life of writer Albert Camus. In that small…
<strong><em>Les poissons de Caracas</em></strong>

Les poissons de Caracas

In Caracas, a dismembered body is discovered in the Guaire River. Inspector Enrique Dávila is assigned to the case. But time is running out, as the…
<em><strong>La edad del búfalo</strong></em>

La edad del búfalo

"How many times can the temperature of a story change? As many times as Javier Guedez wants. His tales of the sweltering Caribbean are told with the…
<em><strong>Expiatorio</strong></em>

Expiatorio

"The narrative voices in Expiatorio are skillfully developed to guide the reader through geographic spaces significant to the author's own biography…
<em><strong>Santiago se va</strong></em>

Santiago se va

"Santiago Iribarren is a filmmaker/scientist who one day decides to tell his life story. To do so, he asks his best friend to help him record an…
<em><strong>Algo habla con mi voz</strong></em>

Algo habla con mi voz

Winner of the Universidad Central Novel Contest in 2019 *"How does a Venezuelan migrant survive in Bogotá while besieged by depression and the voice…
<em><strong>Figuras</strong></em>

Figuras

Synopsis "A single path connects the town to the asylum, but it is no ordinary road. The route consists of numbered squares, and to cross it, one…
<em><strong>Hopper y el fin del mundo</strong></em>

Hopper y el fin del mundo

"They say that in the end, only a single candle will remain, and when its flame goes out, there will be no more light to see. Fire will have vanished…
<strong><em>Molokotov</em></strong>

Molokotov

"The novel, awarded the 2020 Rosario Castellanos International Short Novel Prize, tells the story of Dolores Alcántara, a Venezuelan reporter based in…
<em><strong>El dolor de la sangre</strong></em>

El dolor de la sangre

Martha, a renowned Venezuelan photographer living in Lima, receives an unexpected assignment to do a photo shoot in her home country. Along with this…
<strong><em>Abecedario del estío</em></strong>

Abecedario del estío

"In Abecedario del estío, Liliana Lara uses the letters of the alphabet as a starting point for the stories that make up this volume. Situations and…
<strong><em>Tiempo de tormentas</em></strong>

Tiempo de tormentas

From a very young age, Boris knows he is different. Early on, he is diagnosed with motor skill difficulties and dyslexia, and he displays mannerisms…
<em><strong>Desordenadas</strong></em>

Desordenadas

The protagonists of these stories lead chaotic lives—women of opposing emotions, unfulfilled romances, and bodies that exude existential frustrations.…
<em><strong>La sonrisa de los hipopótamos</strong></em>

La sonrisa de los hipopótamos

"Juan Carlos Chirinos has brought together in this volume eleven texts that were previously scattered across various anthologies published in Europe…
<strong><em>Botella imposible</em></strong>

Botella imposible

Botella imposible is also a kind of micro bildungsroman, divided into three parts: the first, titled El niño siempre quiere huir (The child always…
<em><strong>Lo irreparable</strong></em>

Lo irreparable

Lo irreparable, the third short story collection by Gabriel Payares, presents love not as a discovery or a personal treasure but as a force of…
<strong><em>Feroces: compilación de autoras jóvenes venezolanas</em></strong>

Feroces: compilación de autoras jóvenes venezolanas

Anthology of Short Stories Edited by Jacobo Villalobos. FEROCES brings together furtive encounters with mythological creatures, twins violently…
<em><strong>Amar a Olga</strong></em>

Amar a Olga

"He lives with Marina in an apartment where the sound of police and ambulance sirens echoes daily. The country he finds himself in has become a state…
<em><strong>Volver a cuándo</strong></em>

Volver a cuándo

Synopsis The definitive novel on post-Chávez Venezuela and its migrants. A new voice worth reading. "Life in the revolution was beautiful as long…
<em><strong>Minerva</strong></em>

Minerva

"Minerva tells the story of a young woman born into a polyamorous Venezuelan family with fluid sexuality, consisting of her mother, a fashion…
<em><strong>Penínsulas rotas</strong></em>

Penínsulas rotas

"Grandmother Eloísa, a formidable woman and an avid participant in literary resistance circles. Grandfather Diego, a high-ranking military officer who…
<em><strong>Hormigas en la lengua</strong></em>

Hormigas en la lengua

"Presented as a literary collage composed of letters, poems, fragmented narratives, and family anecdotes, Hormigas en la lengua delves into the games,…
<em><strong>Llévame esta noche</strong></em>

Llévame esta noche

David de Sousa returns to Caracas to be with his ailing mother in what appears to be her final days. After several years away, his visit opens the…
<strong><em>Nebraska</em></strong>

Nebraska

"A group of combative and forsaken characters lead a barren existence amid erudition, alcohol, and music. Nebraska, a magnificent novel by Venezuelan…
<strong><em>La ola detenida</em></strong>

La ola detenida

"The dangerous city of Caracas serves as the backdrop for a story about the search for the rebellious daughter of an influential conservative…
<strong><em>Simpatía</em></strong>

Simpatía

"Ulises Kan is an orphan and a film enthusiast. His wife, Paulina, like so many others fleeing the ruined country they live in, has decided to leave.…