Crema Paraíso

Creator: Camilo Pino

Title: Crema Paraíso

Publisher: Alianza Editorial

Date: 2020

Language: Spanish

Description: 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. He’s convinced he’s the greatest poet in Latin America, that he possesses supernatural powers of seduction, and he expects to receive the Nobel Prize any day now. Following his stepmother’s instructions, Emiliano gives him three orange pills a day to keep him under control, but the old man soon proves to be unmanageable. Crema Paraíso is a work that strikes emotional chords with subtle humor, urging us to question the world. It can be read through many lenses: a father-son novel, an essay on success and failure, a chronicle of revolutionary disillusionment, a meditation on art, a celebration of madness, or a comedy of errors.

Subject: Dementia, Old age, Fathers and sons in literature,Nostalgia in literature, Emigration and immigration

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External resource

Relation:

Review by Hernán Vera Álvarez in Latin American Literature Today

Interview with the author in Prodavinci

Review and interview by Koldo CF in Un libro al día

Review by Jason Maldonado in The Wynwood Times

WorldCat Record

Identifier: OCLC: 1193984669 | ISBN: 9788491818755

Collection: Narrative fiction

Tags: Camilo Pino, Caracas, exile, Family, Family bonds, Food and memory, Longing, memory, Migrant life, Migration, Nostalgia

Citation: Camilo Pino, Crema Paraíso, Alianza Editorial, 2020, OCLC: 1193984669 | ISBN: 9788491818755, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1052