This book aims to offer a portrait of what I consider one of the most significant trends in Venezuelan literature of the late 20th century and the new millennium: the collective critique of the developmentalist optimism common in state discourses,…

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…