Sacrifices: Stories

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 Caldern 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-Exupry.Impeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Caldern 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...