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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 Madrid and willing to do anything to find him again, her quest is interrupted by an extraordinary…
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 Telemachus, a Homeric character who embodies the figure of the son awaiting the return of his heroic…
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 become a famous writer. Three scoundrels, three innocent people, and, ultimately, three men in love…
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), goes to babysit eleven-year-old Osip during her vacation. Everything is easy. Perhaps too easy. On…
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 difficult, and David learns, with each match, great lessons from soccer history: Zidane's header,…
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 that allows Israel Centeno to create a ¨liberated territory¨ of temporal and spatial magnitudes, as…
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 Rabbit is sad or happy. During harvest time, they sit down to eat guavas. Everything suggests they…
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 settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…
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 landscapes of the Gulf of Cariaco; a journey toward his memory, his conscience, and his damnation. There, he…
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. These raw, deeply human, and unflinching short stories confront the reader with the shared miseries…
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 is all of that and much more. Like the book the reader holds in their synergy of life, an amalgam of…
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 Tévez, her classmate, is a provocative, iconoclastic, and rebellious young man. The two decide to…
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 surrounding what happened on the other side of the world discouraging and distressing. The…
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 authoritatianism and repression , the novel develops on the sidelines of the rumanian topics —the legendary Danube,…
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 this book is highly distinctive—deeply personal yet completely universal. The atmosphere he creates,…
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 accompany him—which is no easy task, since the man shows signs of dementia, with delusions of grandeur.…
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 narrator from Atrás queda la tierra connects a series of memories, words and images, to write a…
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 foreign land? There is no single answer, and each character in From Savagery seeks their own formula,…
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 moral boundaries of the harsh world of reality television while delving deep into the inner…
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, Ximena, whom Aranguren takes to preschool every morning before beginning his daily rounds of the…