Sacrifices: Stories

by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

These revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters 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 by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calder?n features a 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-Exup?ry.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644211742
• ISBN13: 9781644211748
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"