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Volver a casa
A melancholic song exploring vulnerability and resilience; portraying the exhaustion of someone wounded by unseen threats. It expresses the urgent need to return home as a place of relief and redemption.
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…
Escribir afuera: cuentos de intemperies y querencias
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…
Crónicas barbitúricas: el asombro y la ira
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…
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…
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…
El país del escritor
What does it mean to escape, to stay, or to be carried away by inertia toward other geographies? What does it mean to travel and live abroad (outside of where, of whom); what does it mean to abandon what belongs to you?, only to reconstruct it in…
Lugares abandonados: antología personal
A serene gaze confirms the permanence of the ruin, its beauty, and the shadow of what is no longer. Each word has been measured in a frame that dignifies the invoked image and the word that names it. Dignity in the broken bones of the mother, of the…
Outside texts = Textos por fuera
Outside Texts is a collection of poems that interrogate themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the author's personal geographies within and outside of Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of…
Liubliana
Ljubljana is the name of a city, but also the memory of a passion; the secret hiding place the desperate trust in; the only refuge of hope. Ljubljana is all of that and much more. Like the book the reader holds in their synergy of life, an amalgam of…
Crema Paraíso
Emiliano receives a lucrative offer from a German production company to take part in a television show. The only condition is that his father must accompany him—which is no easy task, since the man shows signs of dementia, with delusions of grandeur.…
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…
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…
Study of the Raft
"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…
Against the Regime of the Fluent
How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…
Aunque me extinga
"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades…