Literary Fiction

The Night

by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Caracas, 2010: energy blackouts plunge Venezuela into darkness, and two friends—a frustrated writer and his companion—navigate a city reverting to primal chaos. Blanco Calderón delivers a searing portrait of a nation under revolutionary government, where the night becomes a metaphor for political and social collapse.

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