El accidente
Creator: Raquel Rivas Rojas
Title: El accidente
Publisher: Ediciones La Orilla Negra Venezuela
Date: 2019
Language: Spanish
Description: Olga, a Venezuelan woman who has lived in London for years, returns to Venezuela to bury her sister Carla, who has just been murdered, just in the week that Hugo Chávez's death is announced. The Accident tells the story of this return, and of the journey to the province where Carla will be buried, through the voices of the witnesses who accompany Olga on a journey full of painful discoveries. https://www.hablemosescritoras.com/books/3532
Subject: Venezuelan literature, contemporary fiction, mourning in literature, family relationships, sisters, grief, return migration, London, Venezuela, death of Hugo Chávez, political context in literature, crime, funeral rites, trauma, personal discovery, narrative voices, women protagonists, Raquel Rivas Rojas, 21st century literature, social change
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External resource
Relation:
Book page and synopsis at Hablemos Escritoras (Spanish)
Commentary and recommendation at Palabra y Verso (Spanish)
Author profile at Venezuelan Voices in the World (Spanish)
WorldCat bibliographic record
Identifier: OCLC: 1114265124 | ISBN: 9781790565344
Collection: Narrative fiction
Tags: 21st century literature, contemporary fiction, crime, death of Hugo Chávez, family memory, family relationships, funeral rites, Grief, grief and exile, Hugo Chávez, intimate pain, London, mourning in literature, murder and loss, narrative journey, narrative voices, personal discovery, political context in literature, Raquel Rivas Rojas, return migration, return to homeland, sisters, social change, trauma, Venezuela, Venezuelan fiction, Venezuelan literature, women protagonists
Citation: Raquel Rivas Rojas, El accidente, Ediciones La Orilla Negra Venezuela, 2019, OCLC: 1114265124 | ISBN: 9781790565344, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/1104