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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…
Contracanto: poesía reunida (1979-2011)
"In Leonardo Padrón's poetry, the unexpected reigns. The reader goes from surprise to surprise, dazzled by the appearances of the adjective "unusual" in verse that is also unusual, but still constrained by speech. With him, metaphor is dressed for a…
Cosmonauta
"Every cosmonaut is, at heart, a castaway. It is enough to imagine that vast expanse we cowardly call outer space—a vastness that resists both our gaze and our imagination. And in the middle of it, place a human body, covered by a second skin as…
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.…
Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira
When I arrived in Spain more than twelve years ago, I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to write. Only through writing could I make sense of things and find the strength to steer the cayuco of my own prose. The texts in Crónicas barbitrúricas…
Crossing the Darien Gap
"Crossing the Darien Gap (2023) delves into the migrant crisis, where seemingly playful, colorful figures mask a deeper tragedy. 'Many perish or fall ill on the journey,' he explains. 'The skull represents death, the colors reflect cultural…
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,…
De donde vengo
A danceable and necessary catharsis: a protest anthem in 'New Cool Guaracha' that blends swing, son, cumbia, and jazz to metaphorically express Venezuela's crisis.
De Graná a Maracay (feat. Akapellah; Blasfem)
A raw hip-hop critique of Latin American inequality; migration; violence; and cultural survival from marginalized urban perspectives.
Desde allá
Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide…
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 aguacate
A musical satire told as a humorous fable about an avocado's rise to dictatorship among fruits and vegetables; filled with political intrigue and power struggles.
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…