Simpatía - Rodrigo Blanco Calderón an unmoored wanderer

an unmoored wanderer

Alessandra has always wanted more than life offered her

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a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town

Translator: Allison Markin Powell

Simpatía - Rodrigo Blanco Calderón an unmoored wandererSimpatais set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulinas departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past, and