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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 of madness, trapped in a fractured marriage, with a child who dries her tears, and whose only source…
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 of turmoil, mirroring the deterioration of his weary relationship. Their breakup accelerates as he…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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,…
Desordenadas
The protagonists of these stories lead chaotic lives—women of opposing emotions, unfulfilled romances, and bodies that exude existential frustrations. They embrace uncertainty over the logic of a predictable daily routine, living on the edge 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 invitation, memories of her childhood begin to haunt her—like a slow-burning fire coursing through…
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 police arrest his psychiatrist. From that moment on, a different order seems to take hold of his life,…
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…