Sacrifices

"Rodrigo Blanco Calderón is one of the most ambitious narrative voices of his generation. His prose is violent and unrelenting. Effective. Sordid." —Karina Sáinz Borgo

“His characters, following the two argumentative threads of reality and literature, offer a warning against being enslaved by one’s own incapacity. This is not realist literature, but reality in literature.” —Michelle Roche Rodríguez, author of Malasangre

“The kinds of characters and plots that weave themselves around Blanco Calderón will remind some of Patrick Modiano or Enrique Vila-Matas, who he seems to connect with unconsciously. These stories are very good.” —J. E. Ayala-Dip, El País

“Jean Genet argued that it was impossible to commit a truly criminal act in a criminal society. He was thinking of Vichy France, but much the same is true in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's subtle, intricate, very literary thriller set in the Venezuela of today. A page-turner for intelligent readers.” – Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading about The Night