Sacrifices: Stories

✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

• Book ID: 111127493
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: ar-SA
• Weight: 422 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781644211755
• ASIN: B09CD6FFTV

✦ Synopsis

These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves.
A followup to his first novel, The Night (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a blind man lost in Mexico City, a female motorcyclist who rides naked through the night, a foreigner who learns a language making confessions in Paris churches, and a dying pilot who finds peace in a reading of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
 
Impeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Calderón constructs a nocturnal cast of characters who become the victims and executioners of a sacrifice in the midst of a floundering Venezuela, others with the threat of terrorism in France, or in a Mexico symbolizing the first shots of the revolution.