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Caracas en el 2000
A heartfelt love letter that evokes moments of joy and innocence in early 21st-century Caracas.
Una tarde con campanas
Una tarde con campanas is a novel about immigration. First, there's the origin: Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, the Dominican Republic, or the author's native Venezuela). And then, the destination: Madrid in this case, as it could be any…
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…
El informe sobre Clara. Nochebosque
Paula Sorsky, a character who also appeared in Nochebosque (a novel included in this book) and later in Renacen las sombras (La Huerta Grande, 2021), goes to babysit eleven-year-old Osip during her vacation. Everything is easy. Perhaps too easy. On…
Atrás queda la tierra
A novel that tells us to not look away from the horror that everybody who is forced to migrate has to live. While her world crumbles completely, the narrator from Atrás queda la tierra connects a series of memories, words and images, to write a…
Tags: childhood, Cultural clash, diaspora, exile, motherhood, Narrative
Children of Las Brisas
Set in the sprawling suburbs of Valencia, The Children of Las Brisas is a poetic and observational documentary capturing the struggle and transformation of a group of young musicians striving for a better life through classical music. (IMDb) A…
My Aunt Gilma
Isabel, 13, takes care of her aunt Gilma, who was admitted to a hospital in Caracas after being beaten by her partner. In the midst of the chaos that surrounds them, Isabel will do anything to save her aunt and keep a promise. (IMDb)
Superhéroe
"Gabriel has moved to a new country where things can be quite strange: the words are completely different, he has a couple of arch-enemies at school, and his math teacher looks like an alien plotting an invasion of Earth. Luckily, he's an expert on…
Tags: childhood, children, cómic, Graphic novel, immigrant, Migration, Spain, xenophobia
Botella imposible
Botella imposible is also a kind of micro bildungsroman, divided into three parts: the first, titled El niño siempre quiere huir (The child always wants to run away); the second, Era la primera vez que me dejaban salir solo… (It was the first time…