Books from Venezuela
27 popular venezuelan books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Venezuela.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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German Room by Carla Maliandi EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
A non-coming of age story where a woman tries to escape her problems by moving to Germany, but instead finds her life only becoming more complicated.
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It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother–the only family Adelaida has ever known. Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night—to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping inWhen lo... continue
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La enfermedad by Alberto Barrera Tyszka ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Ernesto Durán sabe que está enfermo. Aunque los resultados clínicos digan lo contrario, desde que se ha separado de su mujer y vive solo, padece todos los síntomas de un mal que, según sospecha, puede ser mortal. Su obsesión va más allá de la mera hipocondría, y tiene la certeza de que sólo hay un médico que puede salvarlo. Pero el elegido, el doctor Andrés Miranda, en esos mismos momentos se enfrenta a una tragedia personal: un diagnóstico irrefutable que señala que su padre tiene cáncer, y le quedan pocas semanas por vivir. Mientras Durán necesita desesperadamente hablar de su caso y de él m... continue
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La hija de la española by Karina Sainz Borgo ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
SE PUEDE PERDER TODO. SE PUEDE EMPEZAR DE NUEVO. SOLO SI ERES OTRA. Ganadora del Premio Grand Prix Madame Figaro a Novela Extranjera. La hija de la española, la fascinante novela debut de la periodista venezolana Karina Sainz Borgo, saca a la luz la desgarradora realidad de la vida actual en ese turbulento país sudamericano. Con libre intensidad, Borgo crea una narrativa inquietante en primera persona, que da testimonio de la anarquía distópica que ha descendido sobre una nación alguna vez armoniosa y su gente. Llamando la atención en todo el mundo, con una publicación en más de 23 países, est... continue
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La morsure de la goyave by Marie Eugenia Mayobre FR
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Quelque part en Amérique latine, un après-midi de l’année 1939, Julia frappe à la porte de doña Yolanda pour demander du travail. Nul ne se doute alors que grandit en elle le fruit d’un péché. Lorsque Julia accouche, la maîtresse de maison prédit que l’enfant, Alfonso, sera responsable du destin tragique des femmes de la famille. Hélas, la prophétie se réalise : doña Yolanda puis toutes ses descendantes sombrent dans la folie.
Quand Primitiva, l’arrière-petite-fille timid... continue
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Madhouse : A Suspenseful Horror by Miguel Estrada EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Don't talk to strangers... Faced with his parents' divorce, eleven-year-old Lucas runs away from home in the hope that his family will get back together to find him. While walking through the empty streets, he is picked up by a mysterious woman, who offers to take care of him and provide him with a loving family. The boy then wakes up in shackles, confined to a bed in a decrepit house in the middle of nowhere and will have to face his deepest fears in order to survive in his new home. Join Lucas in a desperate attempt to get back to his family in Madhouse, the first published book from horror-... continue
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No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz Borgo EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It's a stunner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the dead" --Los Angeles Times Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the b... continue
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Patria o muerte by Alberto Barrera Tyszka ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
El insomnio y una persistente inquietud acompañan la jubilación del oncólogo Miguel Sanabria, que siente cómo la situación política ha emponzoñado su país, Venezuela, y también su vida, dirimida entre el extremismo antichavista de su esposa y el radicalismo bolivariano de su hermano. Esos desajustes irán en aumento en cuanto su sobrino Vladimir, recién llegado de La Habana, le pida que esconda un teléfono móvil en el que hay una grabación comprometedora y secreta de Hugo Chávez en un moment... continue
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Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 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 l... continue
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Sleeping Dragons: Stories by Magela Baudoin EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Baudoin’s beguiling portrayals of day-to-day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid, and on the verge of falling apart. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up finds herself heading towards an even murkier future. In "Mengele in Love," a chambermaid in a hotel reminisces about her lost love for a previous resident. As Alberto Manguel observes in his introduction "each story takes a situation to unexpected extremes, and the endings are always surprising and subtly justified.