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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…
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…
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…
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…
Expiatorio
"The narrative voices in Expiatorio are skillfully developed to guide the reader through geographic spaces significant to the author's own biography (Valencia, Bogotá, Valle del Cauca). However, many of these journeys also allow the reader to assign…
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 must follow the order and obey the rules. 'Do not step out of your squares.' 'Running is strictly…
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…
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 from the face of the earth, light will become a great myth, and there will be no eye to see or to…
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, wounds, reflections, pleasures, and fears of childhood. What sets this portrait apart is Yau’s…
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 rhythm of a street party—with its scents, its flavors, and its mysteries—that, all of a sudden, leave…
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,…
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 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 and the Americas. The common thread, as the author himself states, is "a voice beyond the voice I…
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…
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 door to a reflection that delves not only into death but also into desire, uprootedness, erudition and…
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…
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 nature—whimsical, voracious, and, above all, violent. Comprising eight stories that reaffirm his place in…
Los escapistas
"In Los escapistas by Fedosy Santaella, readers will find themselves astonished, frightened, enraged, amused, and ultimately drawn back into the intricate map of escapes, stumbles, and chance encounters that define every existence. Each story in this…
Los terneros
Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind men who know the urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists riding through city avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots finding rest in the writings of…
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 village, he becomes part of the daily routines of a boarding house run by an elderly Japanese woman, who…