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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. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010.
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The Night, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The Night
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press UK
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0995580758
- ISBN13
- 9780995580756
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Politics, Horror, Murders, Gifts for men, Spanish Literature, Communism, Serial killers, Writers, Latin American Literature, Political Thrillers, Totalitarian regimes, Venezuela, Venezuelan Literature
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- The Night
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010.