Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is well known in Venezuela for his Sunday column in the newspaper El Nacional. He cowrote the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hugo Chávez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan president. The Sickness won the prestigious Premio Herralde—an honor previously bestowed on Roberto Bolaño and Javier Marias, among others—and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011.
11 Ebooks by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles: Blue Label
“One part Scheherazade, two parts Boccaccio, a twist of Bolaño, and a dash of bitters. Blue Label is intoxicating, hilarious, and the best novel on the calamity that is today’s Venezuela.”—Carmen Bou …
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English
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€11.99
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Balles perdues
Lors d’une manifestation politique au Venezuela, un homme disparait face aux cameras de television. Mais nul ne sait pourquoi…Recit de la disparition d’un homme, sous l’A il des cameras de televisi …
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French
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€3.22
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: La correspondance des autres
Immersion dans une prison pour un atelier d’ecriture hors du commun.Lorsque Federico Aranguren decide d’animer un atelier d’ecriture dans la prison Ouest, il n’imagine pas que cette experience va bou …
EPUB
French
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€1.89
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Die letzten Tage des Comandante
Für die einen ist Hugo Chávez ein populistischer Diktator, der Venezuela ins Chaos geführt hat, für die anderen ein Befreier, der den Armen und Unterdrückten wieder zu Würde verhilft. Ein tiefer Grab …
EPUB
German
€16.99
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Rating
Dans sa course a l’audimat, jusqu’ou la television est-elle prete a aller ?Jusqu’ou les telespectateurs sont-ils prets a l’encourager ? Et les citoyens a se preter au jeu en vue d’un succes ephemere …
EPUB
French
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€7.74
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Last Days of El Comandante
Venezuela 2012: The President’s illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens – he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable. Miguel Sanabria is a retired oncologist, ambiv …
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English
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€3.99
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Sickness
Ernesto Dur n is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andr s Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Dur n resolves to stalk him. The …
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English
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€3.99
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: Crimes
Unexplained blood stains appear in a young couple’s apartment; a disembodied hand is found in a rubbish dump; political prisoners resort to horrific measures in order to make a point.In this brillian …
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English
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€3.99
Alberto Barrera Tyszka: The Sickness
A profound and philosophical exploration of the nature and meaning of illness, Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s tender, refined novel interweaves the stories of four individuals as they try, in their own way …
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English
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€14.99
Esther Andradi & Jorge Ávalos: Universos breves: antologia do microconto de língua espanhola
Marcado pela liberdade e a inventividade, o microconto é um gênero que coloca a literatura no fio da navalha. Assim como na poesia, em que a profundidade é construída pela escassez, nestas breves nar …
EPUB
Portuguese
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€10.99
