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1) Los terneros
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Pintores taxidermistas que naufragan en una sociedad hostil, ciegos que conocen los laberintos urbanos, motoristas desnudas que circulan por avenidas, extranjeros que aprenden un idioma confesándose, pilotos moribundos que descansan con la lectura de Saint-Exupéry o existencias abducidas por Cervantes y Petrarca. Unos conviven en medio de la zozobra venezolana, otros con el terrorismo acechante en Francia o el México simbólico de los balazos de...
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A followup to his first novel, The Night (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a blind man lost in Mexico City, a female motorcyclist who rides naked through the night, a foreigner who learns a language making confessions in Paris churches, and a dying pilot who finds peace in a reading of Antoine de...
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When Ulises Kan's wife leaves Caracas and moves abroad without him, her father befriends him, and when the father-in-law dies, Ulises finds he has been bequeathed the bizarre task of turning the family mansion into a shelter for dogs.
The untranslatable word, simpatía, an intermingling of sympathy and charm, captures the kinship of stragglers and strays in the cleared-out Venezuelan capital. So too does it describe the Latin American electorate's...
4) The Night
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Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night, and his patient,...