El tercer país
Creator: Karina Sainz Borgo
Title: El tercer país
Publisher: Lumen
Date: 2021
Language: Spanish
Description: Everything takes place on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and two children strapped to her back. The seven-month-old twins die on the journey, and after packing them into shoeboxes, the couple heads off to bury them in El Tercer País, the illegal cemetery run by the legendary Visitación Salazar. Abandoned by her husband, Angustias will fight alongside the gravedigger against a hostile environment, where the only law is dictated by those with weapons, where time is marked by fish, parties, and mysterious toys left on children's graves, while danger and violence escalate until the last minute, blurring the boundaries between life and death.
Subject: Grief, Violence, Voyages and travels, woman in literature, Death, Venezuelan fiction, novel, Karina Sainz Borgo
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External resource
Relation:
Video review by Pedro Santos (Spanish)
Interview: KARINA SAINZ BORGO NOS HABLA DEL TERCER PAÍS (Spanish)
Analysis by Anna Carolina Maier in Letras Libres (Spanish)
Article by Borja Negrete in En el Tapete (Spanish)
Venezuelan writer Karina Sainz Borgo wins Jan Michalski Prize for El tercer país (Letralia, Spanish)
Review by María Belmar in El Quinto Libro (Spanish)
WorldCat bibliographic record
Identifier: OCLC: 1225067691 | ISBN: 9781644733721
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: borderland, burial rites, female solidarity, Grief, Magical realism, motherhood, plague, resistance, violence
Citation: Karina Sainz Borgo, El tercer país, Lumen, 2021, OCLC: 1225067691 | ISBN: 9781644733721, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1091