Blue Label

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 S�nchez 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.