Brookline Books/Lumen Editions

Moonlit 

In Moonlit, Anotonio Lupez Ortega offers us a brilliant mirror. In each segment of text, we find revelations and powerful new ways of understanding fleeting moments in life. The mirror, though, is angled, reflecting the world of the educated middle class in Venezuela. Bit by bit Ortega portrays life at the end of the twentieth century complete with the timeless richness, particular vices and discomforts of our time. Ortega's vision, his vivid direct voice, make the casual events of daily life seem unexpected and the unexpected violent occurrences seem almost casual.

These brief precise stories revive the beauty and delicacy of life, and at the same time, reveal the ways in which we are uneasy with the daily business of our lives.