The night

The Resource The night
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The night
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Rodrigo Blanco CalderÃ3n ; translated from the Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
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eng
Summary
Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010
Dewey number
863/.7
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no index present
Language note
Translated from the Spanish
Literary form
fiction

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