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Exilio en Bowery
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Bamboo City
In Bamboo City, his English-language debut, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Writer-in-Residence Israel Centeno explores the spaces between dreams, fantasy, and reality. With style that matches the steamy ambiguity of Bamboo City itself, Centeno brings our deepest secrets to the light of his cutting prose. The original Spanish appears next to the English translation in this limited edition chapbook.
The Conspiracy
When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot misses the President of Venezuela, he's thrown into a sudden tailspin. As he attempts to escape the increasingly militarized regime, he winds up taking residence in a bohemian beachside commune, where he keeps a low profile until Lourdes, his former comrade, the object of his desire, and his possible betrayer, turns up one evening. Pursued by their former trainer in guerrilla warfare on the orders of the newly appointed Minister of the Interior, the two team up with unlikely partners to hatch a new plan for their survival. This poetic thriller, the second in Phoneme Media's City of Asylum imprint, challenges the origin myth of South America's radical left, resulting in its author's exile from Venezuela.
El complot
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Calletania
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Iniciaciones
An original and passionate novel exploring adolescence and a little-known moment in Latin American history, this work employs a peculiar linguistic style, poetic but visceral, to tell us a familiar story about sex, hatred, and alienation that inscribes itself in the saga of brilliant short novels that Latin American literature has come to offer us during this past century. The voices of the main characters echo long after the story s conclusion, and their jumbled lives, between the country and the city, between ravines and the more bohemian neighborhoods in Paris, adjust themselves like the perfect puzzle pieces of a vigorous and acidic chronicle of the second half of the twentieth century. ...
Writing and the Revolution
In contrast to recent theories of the 'global' Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela's literary isolation. The latter results from factors including the legacy of the Boom and historically low levels of emigration from Venezuela. Grounded in theories of metafiction and intertextuality, the book provides a close reading of eight novels published between 2004 (the year in which the first Minister for Culture was appointed) and 2012 (the last full year of President Chávez's life), ...
El arreo de los vientos
En ]El arreo de los vientos] - como en ]Exilio en Bowery](1999) o en ]Criaturas de la noche](2000), lo fantástico se convierte en un recurso narrativo que le permite a Israel Centeno crear un ]territorio liberado] de magnitudes temporales y espaciales, pues sus criaturas deambulan por Sevilla, Caracas, París, Porto Novo, Salvador de Bahía, Moscú o el mítico reino de Dahomey, atravesando portales, hirviendo calderos y alternando con brujas, libertadores, vampiro y próceres de la independencia, porque ]El arreo de los vientos] es una novela narrada desde el interior del ]aleph borgeano], a través del cristal de M ́Kraan del universo Marvel o desde las profundidades del agujero gusano de la serie Dark, aboliendo así las eras y las coronologías, con la finalidad de celebrar un sacrificio que recuerda al desenlace de ]La noche boca arriba] de Cortázar, solo que en lugar de cazadores de la guerra florida, Israel Centeno libera en ]El arreo de los vientos] a las furiosas erineas del culto Yoruba.
The Night
For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. 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, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and meta...
A Bride Called Freedom/Una Novia Llamada Libertad
Dorotea Bazan, captured by raiding Indians in the 19th century, grows to love her tribal husband and children. She deeply resents being "rescued" years later by her countrymen.
