Bøger af Karina Sainz Borgo

I Caracas i Venezuela står Adelaida Falcón over sin mors grav og må sige farvel. Adelaida efterlades i en overvældende ensomhed og sorg midt i et land, hun ikke længere kan kende: Hendes barndoms stabile og blomstrende Venezuela er nu præget af en brutal og blodig revolution. Revolutionens børn er klar til at tage de allermest rå metoder i brug – og inden Adelaida ser sig om, har hun ikke bare mistet sin mor, men alt, hvad hun ejede. Nat i Caracas er en roman om sorgen efter en tabt mor og et tabt land, om politiske omvæltninger og destruktive kræfter, men mest af alt er det en roman om, hvor meget et menneske kan stå igennem; om vedholdenhed og viljen til at overleve.

Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death. In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquitte--a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs.Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear. While Visitación remains defiant in her mission to care for the dead, the cemetery she oversees is the focal point of a bitter land dispute with Alcides Abundio, the most feared landowner of the border. Caught in this power struggle, Angustias and Visitación-friends and sometimes rivals- stand their ground on a frontier where the law is dictated by violence; a surreal territory whose very nature blurs the boundaries between life and death.Exploring what we are capable of and how far we will go when we have nothing to lose, No Place to Bury the Dead confirms Karina Sainz Borgo's importance amongst the voices of modern Latin American literature, merging thriller, western, and classic tragedy in an unforgettable and urgent novel that won the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize.Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer

"In this tale of great beauty and overflowing imagination, Karina Sainz Borgo combines reality with fantasy and myth to raise, through a carefully crafted and very poetic prose, a new world centered in an imaginary island where Doctor Schubert, half doctor, half explorer, inhabits."--

"Angustias Romero flees by crossing the border. Her husband, stricken with fever, could barely help her carry the shoe boxes where they carried their dead babies on the journey, before leaving her in the Third Country, the illegal cemetery of the mythical Visitation. Friends and sometimes rivals, the two women will fight against a hostile landscape where the only law is dictated by those who are armed, where keeping time is done with fish, parties, and the mysterious toys that people leave in the children's graves, while danger and violence are constantly growing, blurring the boundaries between life and death."--Provided by publisher.

SE PUEDE PERDER TODO. SE PUEDE EMPEZAR DE NUEVO. SOLO SI ERES OTRA. Un fenómeno editorial sin precedentes en la literatura en español Vendida a 22 países antes de su publicación Adelaida Falcón, una maestra caraqueña, fallece tras una larga enfermedad. Su hija Adelaida, de treinta y ocho años, no tiene a nadie y vive en una ciudad donde la violencia marca el ritmo diario de la existencia. Poco tiempo después del entierro, encuentra su casa tomada por un grupo de mujeres a las órdenes de la Mariscala. Llama a la puerta de su vecina sin hallar respuesta: Aurora Peralta, a quien todos llaman «la hija de la española», ha muerto. Encima de la mesa del salón, una carta le comunica que le han concedido el pasaporte español. Adelaida solo tiene que deshacerse del cadáver que yace en el suelo y usurpar la identidad de su vecina para huir del infierno. La hija de la española es el retrato de una mujer que escapa de todos los estereotipos enfrentada a una situación extrema. Con su primera novela, la periodista Karina Sainz Borgo, se ha convertido en la gran noticia literaria del año.

As seen in the New York Times Book ReviewTold with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one womans desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future."e;Echoes of Borges in a novel of war-torn Venezuela . . . the writing is tense and complex . . . dynamic."e; -The New York TimesIn Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcn stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her motherthe only family she has ever knownand worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here.Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble apartment. But now? Every day she lines up for bread that will inevitably be sold out by the time she reaches the registers. Every night she tapes her windows to shut out the tear gas raining down on protesters. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida must make a series of gruesome choices in order to survive in a country disintegrating into anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But just how far is she willing to go?A bold new voice from Latin America, Karina Sainz Borgos touching, thrilling debut is an ode to the Venezuelan peopleand a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

An urgent literary phenomenon sold in over 22 languages before publication, a gripping tale of one woman's desperate battle to survive the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela.