Sacrifices

Stories

Sacrifices
Rodrigo Blanco Calderon, Thomas Bunstead
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h210 x 140mm - 128pg
11 Oct 2022 US
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9781644211748
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A collection of stories about failed martyrs from the critically acclaimed author of The Night and youngest member of the Bogota39 group. The protagonists of these seven stories are already defeated by their own messianism. They retrospectively recount the unjust circumstances that turned them into victims or criminals. The cast of antiheroes in Sacrifices includes a blind man, Tiresias, that seeks intimacy in a labyrinthic Mexico City; a dying pilot who finds solace reading Antoine de Saint-Exupery on a beach in Biarritz; and a taxidermist painter who predicts various Venezuelan massacres in his own Guernica. These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism, proving that fiction is always political. Despite the international settings, Blanco Calder n' s mythical characters are the product of a Venezuelan legacy of martyrs whose sacrifices failed to lead the country to democracy.
"Rodrigo Blanco Calderon is one of the most ambitious narrative voices of his generation. His prose is violent and unrelenting. Effective. Sordid. " -Karina Sainz Borgo
Rodrigo Blanco Calder n is a writer and editor. He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogota39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old. In 2013 he was a guest writer on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2014, his story "Emuntorios" was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, volume number 46 of the prestigious magazine McSweeney' s. With his first novel, The Night, he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Maria Gainza, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as Brixton Review of Books, LitHub, and The White Review. He is a former co-editor of the translation journal In Other Words and currently a Royal Literary Fellow, teaching at Aberystwyth University (2021-2023).
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781644211748
Published: 11 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Seven Stories Press (US)
Publisher: Seven Stories Press (US)
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 153g
Pages: 128

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