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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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Alejandro Velasco EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, a... continue
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Crimes by Alberto Barrera Tyszka EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Unexplained blood stains appear in a young couple's apartment; a disembodied hand is found in a rubbish dump; political prisoners resort to horrific measures in order to make a point. In this brilliant new collection of stories, Alberto Barrera Tyszka casts an eye on the violence that afflicts Latin America, and in particular its intimate effects on the individuals who suffer and inflict it. Mixing the surreal with the quotidian, the banal with the unspeakable, Tyszka has created a fragmentary panorama of man's misdeeds against his own kind. These windingly elliptical stories are ceaselessly s... continue
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Das dritte Land by Karina Sainz Borgo DE
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Angustias Romero ist auf der Flucht vor der Seuche. Mit ihrem Mann und den siebenmonatigen Zwillingen auf dem Rücken ist sie unterwegs in die Berge, auf dem Weg ins rettende Nachbarland. Überall Beschwernis, Hitze und Staub. Die beiden Kinder überleben die Reise nicht.
An der Grenze unterhält Visitación Salazar einen illegalen Friedhof: Das dritte Land. Gegen den Widerstand von Kartellen und Todesschwadronen bietet sie den Ausgestoßenen einen Grabplatz. Hier endlich findet die Mutter für die toten Zwillinge einen Ort. Sie beschließt, bei ihnen zu bl... continue
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Doña Barbara : A Novel by Rómulo Gallegos EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
A novel of love and family conflicts set against the way of life on the huge ranches of the Plains and the Arauca river basin.
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Doña Inés Versus Oblivion by Ana Teresa Torres EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Winner of the Pegasus Prize for International Literature, this novel tells the history of a bitter family dispute, beginning in 18th century Caracas and spanning nearly two centuries. Translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
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El fabricante de peinetas by Ines Quintero ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"Una señora de 57 años tiene un romance con un joven de 22. Cuando el amorío se complica, ella lo acusa de haberle robado un montón de dinero. La denuncia prospera, se entabla un juicio, comienzan las averiguaciones y salen al descubierto las cartas privadas que ella le escribió a él. Lo relatado ocurre en Caracas en 1836 y se convierte en chisme y comidilla de la ciudad por una razón muy sencilla: la señora en cuestión es María Antonia Bolívar, la hermana del Libertador, mientras que el presunto ladrón y depositario de su afecto es un joven humilde llamado José Ignacio Padrón, quien se gana l... continue
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El tercer pais by Karina Sainz Borgo ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Todo ocurre en una frontera, la que separa la sierra oriental de la occidental. Angustias Romero huye de la peste con su marido y sus dos hijos atados a la espalda. Los gemelos, sietemesinos, mueren en el trayecto, y tras guardarlos en sendas cajas de zapatos, el matrimonio se dirige a enterrarlos en El Tercer País, el cementerio ilegal regentado por la mítica Visitación Salazar. Abandonada por su marido, Angustias luchará junto a la sepulturera contra un entorno hostil, donde la única ley la dictan quienes van armados, donde el tiempo lo marcan los peces, la... continue
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Freedom Is a Feast by Alejandro Puyana EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"Venezuela, 1964. Stanislavo, a zealous young man whose vision is clouded by his high ideals, turns his back on his family and privilege to join an underground communist movement. During his first mission, Stanislavo meets Emiliana, a fellow revolutionary. Though it seems to be love at first sight, their budding romance is cut short by a single mistake with disastrous consequences. Forty years later, the landscape of Venezuelan politics is drastically changed, as well as the trajectories of Stanislavo's and Emiliana's lives. When a young boy is accidentally shot on the eve of President Chávez'... continue