Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, journalist Karina Sainz Borgo has written two nonfiction books, Tráfico y Guaire, and Caracas Hip-Hop. In It Would be Night in Caracas (Harper Collins), her first work of fiction, Sainz, for the past 10 years a resident of Spain, chronicles one woman’s struggle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of daily life in modern Venezuela.
After burying her mother, her only family, Adelaida Falcon faces alone a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. It Would Be Night in Caracas, translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer, is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble. (Caracas, Venezuela, 1982) Periodista y narradora residente en España. Ha publicado los libros de periodismo Caracas hip-hop y Tráfico y Guaire. El país de los intelectuales. Llega a Miami para presentar su novela debut: La hija de la española, publicada por Lumen, donde cuenta la historia de una periodista que recién ha perdido a su madre y que no logra avanzar en su profesión porque el país donde vive, Venezuela, no se lo permite.