by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420419459
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«The Night» is the crime novel by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, published by Alfaguara in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Caracas, 2010. The power cuts decreed by the revolutionary government plunge the country into an almost prehistoric darkness. A frustrated writer and a psychiatrist discuss recent crimes; Pedro Álamo seeks in word games the key to understanding that world. Literature, rock, dreams, violence and politics intermingle.
First novel by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, published in the Hispánica collection. It won the III Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize, the Rive Gauche Prize and the Venezuelan Critics' Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction and crime novels interested in the Venezuelan reality.
