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1) Blue label
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a banged-up Fiat with her rebellious classmate Luis Tévez, in search of her grandfather, the one person who can provide her with the documents that would allow her to leave the country. While Eugenia and Luis's tentative, troubled...
2) Malasangre
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 637
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
enero 2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Una deslumbrante historia vampírica cargada de violencia y erotismo, ambientada en la Venezuela de los años veinte. Venezuela, año 1921. Diana, la hija de catorce años de una familia de arribistas de Caracas, descubre que ha heredado la hematofagia de su padre, prestamista y hacendado, ocupaciones que desempeña gracias a su relación con la dictadura de turno. La enfermedad la inclina a la violencia contra algunos hombres y la aleja de su madre,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they managed to escape from a train headed for Auschwitz and spent the rest of the war hiding on an Austrian farm. Now, the two young women must start new lives abroad. Armed with a letter of recommendation from an American officer, Vera finds work at the United States embassy where she falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera and Edith grapple...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble apartment. But now? Every day she lines up for bread that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Eva L̤pez and Mauricio Bosco are in love. That's nothing unique, except that neither of the two is who they claim to be: Eva works for the CIA and Mauricio for the G2, the Cuban intelligence service. Neither knows that the love of their life is their most ardent rival.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
9) Doña Barbara
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundwork for later authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
In Venezuela, Doña Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman with a ferocious power over men--...
10) The night
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"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 frustrado y un psiquiatra acostumbrado a involucrarse en la vida de sus pacientes, conversan sobre...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
La hija de la española es el retrato de una mujer que escapa de todos los estereotipos enfrentada a una situación extrema. Con su primera novela, la periodista Karina Sainz Borgo, se ha convertido en la gran noticia literaria del año.
It is the portrait of a woman who escapes from all stereotypes when faced with an extreme situation. With her first novel, journalist Karina Sainz Borgo has become the big literary news of the year.
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