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English
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
18 October 2022
These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves.

Winner of the O. Henry Prize for the story ""The Mad People of Paris""

These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism withstrange, appealingcharacters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves.

A followup to his first novel, The Night (winner of the Rive Gauche

Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories byVenezuelanliterary star Rodrigo Blanco Calder n featuresa taxidermist painter, a blind man lost in Mexico City, a female motorcyclist who rides naked through the night, a foreigner who learns a language making confessions in Paris churches, and a dying pilot who finds peace in a reading of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Impeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Calder n constructs a nocturnal cast of characters who become the victims and executioners of a sacrifice in the midst of a floundering Venezuela, others with the threat of terrorism in France, or in a Mexico symbolizing the first shots of the revolution.
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Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   136g
ISBN:   9781644211748
ISBN 10:   1644211742
Pages:   128
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Rodrigo Blanco Calder n is a writer and editor. He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogota39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old. In 2013 he was a guest writer on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2014, his story ""Emuntorios"" was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, volume number 46 of the prestigious magazine McSweeney's. With his first novel, The Night, he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Maria Gainza, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as Brixton Review of Books, LitHub, and The White Review. He is a former co-editor of the translation journal In Other Words and currently a Royal Literary Fellow, teaching at Aberystwyth University (2021-2023).

Reviews for Sacrifices: Stories

Rodrigo Blanco Calderon is one of the most ambitious narrative voices of his generation. His prose is violent and unrelenting. Effective. Sordid. -Karina Sainz Borgo


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