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110 popular argentinian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Argentina. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Ceremonia secreta / Secret Ceremony by Marco Denevi ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
La señorita Leonides se movió sobre su asiento del tranvia, tosió y se volvió hacia la persona ubicada a su lado. La muchachita la miraba fijamente, como a la espera de que sucediera algo. La señorita Leonides apartó la vista. Se sintió amenazada. Aquella joven había comenzado a envolvería, a comprometería, le trasvasaba una carga, un peligro. Hasta la coincidencia de estar vestidas de luto creaba entre ambas un misterioso vinculo que las separaba de los demás y las colocaba juntas y aparte. Pero nadie es llamado gratuitamente por el destino. La señorita Leonides aún no lo sabía, pero desde es... continue

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges EN

Rating: 5 (8 votes)
Description:
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who h... continue


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Crimenes Imperceptibles by Guillermo Martínez ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Pocos dias despues de haber llegado a Oxford, un joven estudiante argentino encuentra el cadaver de una anciana que ha sido asfixiada con un almohadon. El asesinato resulta ser un desafio intelectual lanzado a uno de lo logicos mas eminentes del siglo, Arthur Seldom, y el primero de una serie de crimenes Mientras la policia investiga a una sucesion de sospechosos, maestro y discipulo llevan adelante su propia intestigacion, amenazados por las derivaciones cada vez mas riesgosas de sus conjeturas.Crimenes imperceptibles, que conjuga a los sombrios hospitales ingleses con lo juegos de lenguaje d... continue

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Departing at Dawn : A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War by Gloria Lisé EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Gloria Lise describes a terrifying period in her nation's history with a touch that is light yet penetrating. This book is a powerful portrait of Argentineans caught up in traumas that have haunted the country ever since."

16.

Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018. A manic, bruising stream of conscious portrayal of a mother and wife struggling to maintain both a normal life and her sanity.

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Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer's has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you? In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully surprising (the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their previous shared vernacular). There are occasions of wonder, too—M.L. can no longer find the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed along by... continue

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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES

Rating: 3 (6 votes)
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue

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El país imaginado by Eduardo Berti ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Imbuida de una atmósfera mágica, de delicados elementos que prefiguran lo que ha de ser el país imaginado, esta bella historia nos traslada a una China de principios del siglo XX repleta de fantasmas, de bodas entre vivos y muertos, de supersticiones y ritos ancestrales. En medio de todo ello se encuentra la protagonista, una joven que vive atemorizada por el compromiso nupcial que para ella desean pactar sus padres y que, mientras, solo tiene ojos para la hija de un vendedor de pájaros ciego, la hermosísima Xiaomei, con quien inicia una tímida relación de amistad y dependencia. En sus citas e... continue

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El sueño de los héroes by Adolfo Bioy Casares ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Durante los carnavales de 1927, después de caminar tres días y tres noches por Buenos Aires, dormir poco y beber mucho, Emilio Gauna entreve en el abra de un bosquecito, en Palermo, la culminación de su vida. La imagen es cíclica y persuasiva como en los sueños, transfigurada por el cansancio que proyecta el alcohol. A partir de ese momento el recuerdo de su gesta secreta y el amor de Clara, la hija de un brujo de barrio, libraran en su conciencia una obstinada lucha contra el destino. Para los carnavales de 1930 Gauna decide salir otra vez. Pasara en el mism... continue
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