A woman travels to France to seek family roots in a small town, which will allow her to obtain a foreign passport to escape Venezuela; another visits the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and, upon seeing the objects that recount the lives in a novel…

When I arrived in Spain more than twelve years ago, I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to write. Only through writing could I make sense of things and find the strength to steer the cayuco of my own prose. The texts in Crónicas barbitrúricas…