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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…
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El tercer país
Everything takes place on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and two children strapped to her back. The seven-month-old twins die on the journey, and…
En las ruinas
The death that results from the reunion of an old group of friends, the final days of a writer shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the boy who sees his cousin and playmate disappear, or the old woman who begins to lose her memory…
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,…
La ciencia de las despedidas
Several had their hands tied. All showed signs of severe trauma—evidence of blunt force injuries, such as those caused by mallets, and wounds made by piercing weapons. Experts believe the 27 individuals were restrained, systematically executed, and…