Special thanks to the book club members who sent in suggestions this month. While few books from Venezuela are translated into English, the books which are included in the vote contain a wonderful variety of genres we’re lucky to choose from this month.
Before we get to the vote, I’d like to introduce you to “one of the most influential poets, novelists, & essayists in Venezuela at the end of the 20th century” with one of her beautiful works.
An excerpt from That Dark Animal of Sleep by Antonia Palacio
“I’m listening to the trembling of a distant night. A night that murmurs amid its dense foliage. I’m barely listening to it from this closed place where my spirit drags itself over hard foundations that wound me without bleeding.
I want to penetrate the night, know of its occult aroma, have it fill me slowly with its stillness, its adventure. Go towards other continents where the night turns, raises small things that soar intact in a flight toward the skies.
This night is magic, its curvature in sleeplessness. The wind carries me in its fervor to imagine another recondite and generous night that could illumine me completely from afar, from outside, and clear up this babbling—subdued without violence.
This night is so long.”
So lovely & evocative!
Now onto the vote.
THE VOTING
You can vote from now until Wed., July 28 at 11:30PM on which book you’d like the club to read next. (That's NYC time. See this converted to your local time below.)
To participate:
1. Review the books.
2. Then, click here to vote.
We'll publish the anonymous results afterwards so you can get the book in advance.