Centauro

La novela de Páez

Rafael Osío Cabrices

Centauro will be released in late 2025

A native son of the Plains, he rode beyond his horizons to bring home new ideas, endure the winter of exile, and flourish in a new world. He knew horses and people alike and believed nature wasn’t a foe but an ally. He was Achilles and Odysseus, and Florentino, the singer who defeated the devil at a crossroads in the plains. He knew how to kill and to forgive. He fought for glory on the battlefield and peace on his land—a life of power, love, glory, and treason.

Leaping over official history, Centauro hunts down the known pieces of the puzzle and imagines the missing ones to assemble the extraordinary life of Venezuela’s first national leader, José Antonio Páez.

Centauro chronicles the birth pains of the republic, from the crisis of the Crown's rule to the dawn of modernity, through two devastating wars, the failure of a utopia, and the traumatic surge of a unique society.

A journey across the Venezuela that was –in more ways than we think– and the one that still is. The novel of Páez is the story of the country.