Sin duda su narrativa es excelente, pero la novela tiene sus propias reglas, no escritas, sobre como llevar una historia y en el caso de The Night, la trama de la historia es difusa, sobrecargada de personajes (en la mayoría de los casos innecesarios) que solo están para aportar una opinión del. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogot39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old. Rodrigo Blanco es un excelente cuentista. He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In his debut novel The Night, which was named after a song by American indie rock-band Morphine, Blanco Caldern writes about many subjects: his countrys. “The Mad People of Paris” follows the aftermath of the Bataclan massacre in 2015 as the narrator, a researcher visiting the city 10 days after the attack, meets people still in recovery and describes the grief carried by Parisians as “a kind of invisible shawl.” Calderón’s precise prose here (and throughout) is wonderfully translated by Bunstead, as the narrator remarks how “the silence of those days was a scarf made of the very air, wrapped close around the necks of the locals and we foreigners alike.” Calderón brings a delicate focus to his characters’ strange encounters. Rodrigo Blanco Caldern is a writer and editor. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Late at night, while shooting the breeze with other cabbies, the driver learns about “Big Tits,” his colleagues’ name for a woman whose supposedly rides naked around town on her motorcycle, and becomes obsessed with seeing her. Read reviews and buy The Night - by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon (Paperback) at Target. “Black Holes” follows a new taxi driver trying to support his teenage son.

The narrator of “Petrarch” confides how it felt to finally graduate from high school at 21 in Mexico City, to be named for a 13th-century poet, and how his hair turned white as a kid. Venezuelan writer Calderón ( The Night) returns with a wonderfully bizarre and dreamlike collection.

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