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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...
Simpatía
Rodrigo Blanco Calderón has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his short story collection Sacrifices. Simpatía is a suspenseful novel with unexpected twists and turns about the agony of Venezuela and the collapse of Chavismo. Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulina's departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even furth...
Sacrifices
Winner of the O. Henry Prize for the story "The Mad People of Paris" These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves. 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 Saint-Exupéry. Impeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Calderón constructs a nocturnal cast of characters who become the victims and executioners of a sacrifice in the midst of a floundering Venezuela, others with the threat of terrorism in France, or in a Mexico symbolizing the first shots of the revolution.
Simpatía
La nueva novela del ganador del Premio Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa por The Night «[Si] The Night confirmó al autor como una de las voces más prometedoras y poderosas de la narrativa latinoamericana, ahora vuelve a Venezuela con Simpatía en un tono distinto, más de puertas adentro.» Pablo Bujalance, Diario de Sevilla «Así nos marchamos los que nos quedamos —pensó.» Ulises Kan es huérfano y cinéfilo. Paulina, su mujer, como tantas personas que huyen del país en ruinas en que viven, ha decidido irse. Sin él. Dos sucesos más terminan de trastocar su vida: el regreso de Nadine, un amor inconcluso del pasado, y la muerte de su suegro, el general Martín Ayala. Gracias al t...
The Night
NOVELA GALARDONADA CON EL III PREMIO BIENAL DE NOVELA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Premio Rive Gauche (Francia) Premio de la Crítica (Venezuela) Una fábula sobre la Venezuela de hoy, por el autor revelación de la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos años «Estoy convencido de que todo el mal del mundo empieza en ellas. En las palabras.» Caracas 2010. La crisis energética es aprovechada por el gobierno revolucionario para decretar cortes eléctricos que, durante horas, funden a negro todo el país. En esos lapsos de tiempo, Venezuela parece retroceder en la historia hacia una nueva Edad de Piedra que se filtra por todas las rendijas. En medio de esta atmósfera, dos amigos, un escritor frus...
Crude Words
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A General Theory of Oblivion
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017 A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird’s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
Land of Cockaigne
A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son’s death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents’ well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden threats, and ...
Los terneros
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 la revolución. Impecable y magistral en sus cuentos, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón construye un retablo de personajes nocturnos, que se convierten en víctimas y verdugos de un sacrificio, de la expiación que es la vida en cualquier momento, en cualquier espacio, en la que todos somos "terneros". "Uno de los grandes nombres de la actual literatura venezolana, una literatura que suele ahora dar lo mejor de sí misma fuera de sus fronteras" Juan Ángel Juristo, La Vanguardia "El estilo de Rodrigo Blanco es admirable" Arturo García Ramos, ABC Cultural
Downward Spiral
Hailed in the 1950s as a beacon of Latin America's modernist architecture, Venezuela's El Helicoide is a futuristic fantasy gone sour. At its conception, this drive-through shopping center embodied the narrative of progress fueled by soaring oil prices, consumerism and car culture. Yet a very different story unfolded on its spiral ramps. Caught up in the transition from military dictatorship to democratic rule, El Helicoide became a site of abandonment, encircled by slums, repurposed as an emergency shelter for flood victims, and finally taken over as the intelligence police headquarters and jail. Combining archival documents, critical analysis, literary excerpts and visual artworks, From Mall to Prison traces the turbulent history of this living ruin and shows the dystopic side of urban modernity.
