It Would Be Night In Caracas

"Karina Sainz Borgo has spent her life writing about Venezuela as a journalist, but this is her first time writing about it as a novelist. The narrative jumps back and forth from Venezuela’s bleak and violent present – when cash is worthless, shelves are empty and gangs roam the streets – to the recent prosperous past, with scenes of abundance and joy. Sainz Borgo describes it as a love letter to her country, but it also reads like an obituary telling the tragic story of a place that has become unrecognizable to a woman who once called it home. “I have this strong feeling of loneliness…” she told me. “The country I want to go back to does not exist anymore.”"