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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 town's history from colonization through the catastrophic 1999 mudslides. Winner of the Best…
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 October 2025. The work follows an eight-year-old girl who emigrates from Galicia to Caracas in 1983,…
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 radiograph of Venezuelan society narrated through fractures in reality and altered dimensions, blending…
The Inventor
Novel by Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy (Paris, 1986), son of a Venezuelan mother and Chilean father, published in Spanish translation by Libros del Asteroide in October 2023 (original French: Rivages, 2022). The book recounts the life of…
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 exceeds its own form? And what is a novel when it resists being one? It is not an intimate diary,…
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 territories where the protagonists transgress the everyday to merge with the monstrous. This anthology…
Sacrifices: Stories
Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind people familiar with urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists cruising the avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots resting by reading Saint-Exupéry, or lives…
The night
Caracas, 2010. The revolutionary government exploits the energy crisis to decree power outages that, for hours, black out the entire country. During these periods of time, Venezuela seems to regress in history to a new Stone Age that seeps through…
Venecos
"Venecos" is a derogatory way of referring to Venezuelans, who in these magnificent stories have emigrated to different cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Paris, or Malaga, or have no means of leaving Venezuela, a country in moral and…
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 letters marked by astonishment and horror, Sere tells Olga about the adventures of Patricia, a friend…
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 week that Hugo Chávez's death is announced. The Accident tells the story of this return, and of the…
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 door to a reflection that explores not only death but also desire, uprooting, scholarship and…
Malasangre
Venezuela, 1921. Diana, the fourteen-year-old daughter of an elitist family from Caracas, discovers she has inherited the hematophagy disorder from her father, a moneylender and landowner, occupations he pursues thanks to his connection to the…
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 intellectual awakening of a teenager to the decision of a forty-five-year-old woman not to abide by any…
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 prison. A first image as paradoxical as the fact that man can make time move forward by delving into the…
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 the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and, upon seeing the objects that recount the lives in a novel…
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 husband and two children strapped to her back. The seven-month-old twins die on the journey, and…
Arqueología sonámbula
An experimental book that, through autofiction and other literary mechanisms, explores the ruin and deterioration of a revolutionary experiment in Venezuela, reactivating another form of utopian desire. Juan Cristóbal Castro writes Arqueología…
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 author's native Venezuela). And then, the destination: Madrid in this case, as it could be any…
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, the boy who sees his cousin and playmate disappear, or the old woman who begins to lose her memory…