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When Ulises Kan's wife leaves Caracas and moves abroad without him, her father befriends him, and when the father-in-law dies, Ulises finds he has been bequeathed the bizarre task of turning the family mansion into a shelter for dogs.
The untranslatable word, simpatía, an intermingling of sympathy and charm, captures the kinship of stragglers and strays in the cleared-out Venezuelan capital. So too does it describe the Latin American electorate's enshrining of a long line of larger-than-life political figures, from Simón Bolívar to Hugo Chávez.
“Simpatía,” unreels in prose that is both more refined and more exuberant. A novel of men and dogs, “Simpatía” unearths the secrets of Blanco Calderón's native Caracas and finds humor and humanity in our monstrous, postlapsarian present.
The untranslatable word, simpatía, an intermingling of sympathy and charm, captures the kinship of stragglers and strays in the cleared-out Venezuelan capital. So too does it describe the Latin American electorate's enshrining of a long line of larger-than-life political figures, from Simón Bolívar to Hugo Chávez.
“Simpatía,” unreels in prose that is both more refined and more exuberant. A novel of men and dogs, “Simpatía” unearths the secrets of Blanco Calderón's native Caracas and finds humor and humanity in our monstrous, postlapsarian present.