Лучшие книги Каринs Сайнс Борго

На улицах Каракаса, в Венесуэле, царит все больший хаос. На площадях "самого опасного города мира" гремят протесты, слезоточивый газ распыляют у правительственных зданий, а цены на товары первой необходимости безбожно растут.

Некогда успешный по местным меркам сотрудник издательства Аделаида Фалькон теряет в этой анархии близких, а ее квартиру занимают мародеры, маскирующиеся под революционеров. Аделаида знает, что и ее жизнь в опасности.

"В Каракасе наступит ночь" — леденящее душу напоминание о том, как быстро мир, который мы знаем, может рухнуть. А также это гимн ностальгии по детству и любви, что вынуждает нас идти на баррикады.

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, las fiestas y los misteriosos juguetes que alguien deja sobre las tumbas de los niños, mientras el peligro y la violencia crecen hasta el último minuto borrando los límites entre la vida y la muerte.
La hija de la española fue la revelación de la literatura en español, traducida a veinticinco idiomas y comparada por la crítica con Borges y Coetzee. Con El Tercer País, Karina Sainz Borgo confirma su talento y ambición, y su pertenencia a una nueva literatura latinoamericana que funde el thriller, el western, la tragedia clásica y la gran herencia de los maestros del boom y está conquistando a lectores de todo el mundo.

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 border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death.

In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite––a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs.

Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear. While Visitación remains defiant in her mission to care for the dead, the cemetery she oversees is the focal point of a bitter land dispute with Alcides Abundio, the most feared landowner of the border. Caught in this power struggle, Angustias and Visitación–friends and sometimes rivals– stand their ground on a frontier where the law is dictated by violence; a surreal territory whose very nature blurs the boundaries between life and death.

An urgent literary phenomenon sold in over 22 languages before publication, a gripping tale of one woman's desperate battle to survive the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela.
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 her window tear gas rains down on protesters in the streets. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. This marks the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other.
From a powerful, new voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.