It Would Be Night in Caracas

✍ Scribed by Karina Sainz Borgo

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062936859

✦ Synopsis

As seen in the New York Times Book Review.

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.

**"**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 Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and 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...