While the plot might be shaggy in places, it’s well worth spending time with The Night‘s cast of authors and weirdos as the book reveals its bizarre take on life in Caracas.Īpple | Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Reading this novel feels like hanging around with the wittiest people you know at 2 AM and talking about whatever comes to mind. The book has an offbeat feel to it even when discussing nastier elements of the plot, with a quick wit weaving in and out of its philosophical discussions on serial murder and literary prize winners. Fiction and reality collide, storylines flip between past and present, and each narrator presents their unique perspective on events, whether it’s the writer obsessed with bringing new life to urban gothic novels and detective fiction, the reclusive ad executive frightened by motorcycles, or the curious psychiatrist who occasionally consults on criminal psychology cases. The Night, Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (translated by Noel Hénandéz Gonzalez and Daniel Hahn)Ī series of blackouts rock the city of Caracas, prompting mysterious events, strange dreams, and even stranger conversations between a group of artists, writers, and general eccentrics.
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