THE NIGHT is a political novel about the financial crisis and sociopolitical division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book originally also in English is a gesture towards the failure of Chavism the legacy of the Socialist and often controversial former president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez to resist US influence. Yet the form is unapologetically literary a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an ines