It Would Be Night In Caracas

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Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one womans desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future.

"Echoes of Borges in a novel of war-torn Venezuela . . . the writing is tense and complex . . . dynamic." -The New York Times

In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcn stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her motherthe only family she has ever knownand 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 will inevitably be sold out by the time she reaches the registers. Every night she tapes her windows to shut out the tear gas raining down on protesters. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida must make a series of gruesome choices in order to survive in a country disintegrating into anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But just how far is she willing to go

A bold new voice from Latin America, Karina Sainz Borgos touching, thrilling debut is an ode to the Venezuelan peopleand a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer

Reviews

"The voice of a conscience... Dry, concise, direct, with an extraordinary stirring force... Sainz Borgo's novel is simply masterful." -- Fernando Aramburu, author of Homeland

"The next literary sensation." -- El Mundo

"A propulsively written, harrowing story, as desperate as it is timely." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Borgo's beautiful prose belies the brutal reality of the breakdown in civil society she lays bare in this powerful literary look at strife-torn Venezuela..." -- Booklist

"Sainz Borgo's excellent debut is a harrowing account of one woman grieving the recent death of her mother while attempting to survive the political unrest in Caracas, Venezuela." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Echoes of Borges in a novel of war-torn Venezuela...the writing is tense and complex...dynamic. -- New York Times

Author Bio

Karina Sainz Borgo was born and raised in Caracas. She began her career in Venezuela as a journalist for El Nacional. Since immigrating to Spain ten years ago, she has written for Vozpopuli and collaborates with the literary magazine Zenda. She is the author of two narrative non fiction books, Trafico y Guaire (2008) and Caracas Hip-Hop (2008). It Would Be Night in Caracas is her first work of fiction.