Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Author of The Sickness
About the Author
Image credit: Venezuelan author Alberto Barrera Tyszka during Chacao's Book Fair in Caracas, Venezuela, 2011. Photo by Guillermo Ramos Flamerich
Works by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Blue Label 2 copies
Bogotá Contada 2.0 1 copy
Stray Bullets 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1960
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Venezuela
- Birthplace
- Caracas, Venezuela
- Occupations
- journalist
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Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Members
- 198
- Popularity
- #110,929
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 12
- ISBNs
- 50
- Languages
- 6
Alongside this is the story of Ernesto Durán, a former patient who Andrés dismissed as a hypochondriac, whose desperate emails are secretly answered by his secretary in Andrés' name.
A short novel with a hefty punch, dealing with death, mortality, deception of self and others, and the blurred boundary between deception and realism, and how we use both, wilfully or otherwise, to navigate life and impending death.… (more)