El vuelo de los avestruces (') is the debut novel by Venezuelan writer Boris Izaguirre, published in 1991, starring a homosexual dwarf in Caracas in the late eighties and early nineties. History El vuelo de los avestruces was the second highest selling book of the year after its publication and was mentioned in Britannica Book of the Year along with other Latin-American novels. Unlike previous works on male homosexuality published in Venezuela, it approached the subject in a much more lighthearted and ironic manner. The novel was republished in 2006 under the publishing house Alpha Decay.