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Blue label / Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles ; translated by Paul Filev ; [afterword by Alberto Barrera Tyszka].

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Turtle Point Press , 2018Copyright date: ©2013Copyright date: ©2013Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First Turtle Point Press editionDescription: 237 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781885983572
  • 1885983573
Uniform titles:
  • Blue label/Etiqueta Azul. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • Fiction Sanchez Rugeles
  • 863/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ6719.A57348 E7513 2018
Summary: "Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan 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 Tévez, 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 Luis's tentative, troubled romance unfolds during the Chávez era, the story also looks back at Venezuela's "lost decade" of the 1990s, a time of intractable violence, inequality, corruption, and instability that led to Chávez'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."--provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ6719.A57348 E7513 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33039001482024

First published in Spanish in 2010 by Libros de El Nacional as Blue label/Etiqueta Azul.

"Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan 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 Tévez, 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 Luis's tentative, troubled romance unfolds during the Chávez era, the story also looks back at Venezuela's "lost decade" of the 1990s, a time of intractable violence, inequality, corruption, and instability that led to Chávez'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."--provided by publisher.

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