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…

Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…