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"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,…
En mi boca se abrirá la noche
"The author began writing this poetry collection ten years ago, following the murder of two women (mother and daughter) in Caracas. The news coverage focused more on sensationalism than on denouncing violence, as photos of the two women’s burned…
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…
Desafiando al Coloso: Tres Actos
Performance and installation by Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist Deborah Castillo (Caracas, 1971), presented at the Museo Universitario del Chopo (UNAM), Mexico City, June 15–26, 2022. The work consists of three consecutive actions in which the…
Dear parent or guardian
A body just beginning to define itself discovers the inadequacy of imposed language. Though it rebels and implodes, the machinery it opposes is a shadow that spreads—an unanswerable question and, ultimately, a sentence. In Dear Parent or Guardian,…
Children of Las Brisas
Set in the sprawling suburbs of Valencia, The Children of Las Brisas is a poetic and observational documentary capturing the struggle and transformation of a group of young musicians striving for a better life through classical music. (IMDb) A…
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…
¿Quién trae las cornetas?
Fifth studio album by Caracas-formed band Rawayana, released September 21, 2023 via Brocoli Records. Comprising 22 tracks, the album marks a tonal shift from the politically charged predecessor Cuando los acéfalos predominan (2021) toward collective…
¡No, tú no!
"Tired of her mother's orders and of watching life pass by from behind the window, Roberta decides to embark on an adventure. As she ventures into the forest, she encounters a pair of monsters who, in order to let her play with them, challenge her…
Women of Venezuelan Chaos
"Five women from Venezuela, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of a society in perdition and allow us to take the pulse of a population in distress, to represent a sort of barometer of the situation of this Latin American…
Wild West
In Wild West, the author explores the unprotected civic space and the abandonment brought about by a State that, perilously, has withdrawn from the city. From this perspective, the work reflects on the destruction caused by the collapse of social…
While You're Still You (Mentre siguis tu / Mientras seas tú)
Winner of the 2024 Goya Award for Best Documentary Feature.
"After 50 years in theater, film, and television, actress Carme Elías is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Together with her friend, director Claudia Pinto Emperador, she decides to document her…
Wake
Wake is a bilingual poem reading performance by Sebastián Rodríguez y Vasti. The title serves as a metaphor for mourning; memorializing; and water—physical waterways; emotional drowning; and tears. Sebastián reflects on growing up near the water and…
Volveré a mi tierra
"Camino por New York muy lentamente
En un mundo veloz mi paso es lento
No se a dónde van, ni de dónde vienen
Yo se a donde a voy, y de donde vengo
Allí, blanca, la ropa baila inquieta
Solemos saludar volviendo a casa
Cantamos juntos en…
En un mundo veloz mi paso es lento
No se a dónde van, ni de dónde vienen
Yo se a donde a voy, y de donde vengo
Allí, blanca, la ropa baila inquieta
Solemos saludar volviendo a casa
Cantamos juntos en…
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…
Volver a casa
A melancholic song exploring vulnerability and resilience; portraying the exhaustion of someone wounded by unseen threats. It expresses the urgent need to return home as a place of relief and redemption.