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Blue Label

â€œOne part Scheherazade, two parts Boccaccio, a twist of BolaÃ±o, and a dash of bitters. Blue Label is intoxicating, hilarious, and the best novel on the calamity that is todayâ€™s Venezuela.â€â€•Carmen Boullosa

"This deftly and idiomatically translated novel . . . a quest of sorts, as a high school student in ChÃ¡vez's Venezuela tries to make sense of love and life . . . packs a punch on many levels: personal, political, and even mythic." â€•Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Eugenia Blanc, a young CaraqueÃ±an and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a banged-up Fiat with her rebellious classmate Luis TÃ©vez, in search of her grandfather, the one person who can provide her with the documents that would allow her to leave the country. While Eugenia and Luisâ€™s tentative, troubled romance unfolds during the ChÃ¡vez era, the story also looks back at Venezuelaâ€™s â€œlost decadeâ€ of the 1990s, a time of intractable violence, inequality, corruption, and instability that led to ChÃ¡vezâ€™s election. With an unvarnished fluidity that brings to mind Jack Kerouac and a crazy-ass playlist that ranges from REM to Bob Dylan to El Canto del Loco to Shakira, Blue Label is an audacious, dark novel with a gut-punch of an ending; the prize-winning first book by a writer who has cemented his reputation as a major young Latin American voice.
Country USA
Brand Turtle Point Press
Manufacturer Turtle Point Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2018-10-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781885983572

Country	USA
Brand	Turtle Point Press
Manufacturer	Turtle Point Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2018-10-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781885983572