Blue Label
Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles
Translator Paul Filev
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Summary
Winner of the Arturo Uslar Pietri Award for Latin American Literature; shortlisted for the Venezuelan Critics Award 12,000 copies sold in Venezuela A film based on the book (screenplay by our author) will be completed by the end of this year and shown in U.S. festivals next year. It stars popular L.A.-based actor Maria Gabriela de Faria, who has nearly one million Instagram followers. The afterword by Tinhouse author Alberto Barrera Tyszka adds insight into the sociopolitical context and confirms Sánchez Rugeles as a leading voice among younger Venezuelan writers. Readers will love bickering with Luis and Eugenia over which music is worth hearing--REM, Bob Dylan, El Canto del Loco, Shakira--and which songs are worth playing again and again.