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MARÍA ELENA MORÁN is a Venezuelan writer and screenwriter based in Brazil. She is the author of the novel Los Continentes del Adentro. Her second novel, The Winds of Maracaibo (published as Volver a cuándo in Spain), won the Café Gijón Prize in Spain and has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, and English. MADELINE JONES is an editor at Algonquin Books. She recently completed a master’s degree in translation studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and lives between Barcelona and New York.
“While trying to survive abroad, Nina is forced to return to her own history. When the secrets of the past push her to search for something that no longer exists—family, love, the revolution—she discovers that her only possible country lies in the things she cares most for. With brilliant writing that strikingly blends different voices and registers, María Elena Morán turns tragedy into an adventure; she takes us on an extraordinary journey of fiction and language that manages to evoke, from the outside, the intimacy of a country.” —Alberto Barrera Tyszka, author of Hugo Chávez ""With its rich and unrestrained prose, which gives no pause, which is like a river or a marathon, Morán brings chaos to life. A novel to feel the tragedy of Venezuela and its migrants in one's own flesh. A new voice worth reading."" —Pilar Quintana, author of Abyss ""A novel of enormous literary scope on Venezuelan immigration."" —Diego Gándara, La Razón ""The Winds of Maracaibo drags you, shakes you, excites you, exhausts you, and moves you. Like living another life, more difficult than yours, more intense. Like crying for what will never be."" —La Sexta
This is Where the Serpent Lives...
‘Set to be a standout novel of 2026’...
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