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La inocencia de las sardinas
Debut novel by Venezuelan journalist Etxenara Mendicoa set in Naiguatá, a coastal town in Vargas state. Through fictional characters, it traces the town's history from colonization through the catastrophic 1999 mudslides. Winner of the Best…
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,…
Un animal impronunciable
An Unpronounceable Animal explores the feminine in its most savage and primitive form. Through its stories, it invites us to get lost in unexplored territories where the protagonists transgress the everyday to merge with the monstrous. This anthology…
Sacrifices: Stories
Taxidermist painters shipwrecked in a hostile society, blind people familiar with urban labyrinths, naked motorcyclists cruising the avenues, foreigners learning a language through confession, dying pilots resting by reading Saint-Exupéry, or lives…
The night
Caracas, 2010. The revolutionary government exploits the energy crisis to decree power outages that, for hours, black out the entire country. During these periods of time, Venezuela seems to regress in history to a new Stone Age that seeps through…
Venecos
"Venecos" is a derogatory way of referring to Venezuelans, who in these magnificent stories have emigrated to different cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Paris, or Malaga, or have no means of leaving Venezuela, a country in moral and…
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…
Venezuela en España: capítulos de una historia literaria extraterritorial
This research focuses on the history of the privileged relationship that, throughout the 20th century, was woven between a handful of Venezuelan writers and the Spanish literary field. Pedro Emilio Coll (1872-1947), Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874-1944),…
Ficción adulterada: pasiones ilícitas del entresiglo venezolano
For those who understand the late 19th-century Latin American novel as a foundational genre—where literature and nation are forged in close dialogue—Ficción adulterada by Nathalie Bouzaglo poses a challenge. It is no surprise that adultery, as a…
Llévame esta noche
David de Sousa returns to Caracas to be with his ailing mother in what appear to be her final days. After several years away, this visit opens the door to a reflection that explores not only death but also desire, uprooting, scholarship and…
El desengaño de la modernidad : cultura y literatura venezolana en los albores del siglo XXI
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,…
Trae tu espalda para hacer mi mesa
"Yau has an extraordinary talent for distilling words and transforming them into almost physical aesthetic experiences. The poems in this collection spark a sensation, a taste, a space, and without us realizing it, they take us to unexpected and…
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…
Rasgos comunes: antología de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX
If there is a dominant literary genre in Venezuela, it is undoubtedly poetry. A reading of the twentieth century reveals an admirable thirst for modernity and cosmopolitanism. One of the main reasons for presenting the expansive vision offered by…
Uprising / Alzamiento
"Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.…
Les poissons de Caracas
In Caracas, a dismembered body is discovered in the Guaire River. Inspector Enrique Dávila is assigned to the case. But time is running out, as the army threatens to transfer the file to the secret services.
Meanwhile, the officer’s neighbor is…