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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…
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 and a way of speaking that seem effeminate. Adults whisper that his mother, Belén—a renowned…
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. Without him. Two more events further upend his life: the return of Nadine, an unresolved love from…
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…
Nebraska
"A group of combative and forsaken characters lead a barren existence amid erudition, alcohol, and music. Nebraska, a magnificent novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Gomes, is a narrative artifact in which two groups of characters—living independent…
Molokotov
"The novel, awarded the 2020 Rosario Castellanos International Short Novel Prize, tells the story of Dolores Alcántara, a Venezuelan reporter based in Mexico during pandemic times. To this crisis—which triggers a hurried return to her country—are…
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 army threatens to transfer the file to the secret services.
Meanwhile, the officer’s neighbor is…
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 politician. The family hires Magdalena Yaracuy, a detective who combines witchcraft with expert…
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…
Feroces: compilación de autoras jóvenes venezolanas
Anthology of Short Stories Edited by Jacobo Villalobos.
FEROCES brings together furtive encounters with mythological creatures, twins violently attempting to merge back into one, a home that consumes the souls of its tenants, trapping them forever,…
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…
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 wants to run away); the second, Era la primera vez que me dejaban salir solo… (It was the first time…
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…
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 reflections that oscillate between fiction and reminiscence serve as the primary elements that shape…
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 as it remained a promise. Then came the failures—those of the country and his own. When Nina asked…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…