Books from Colombia
44 popular colombian books
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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 Colombia.
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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El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Dos historias hay en este libro. Una de ellas, apenas esbozada, es la de un amor secreto que culmina en la muerte elegida por un hombre que quiso ponerse a salvo de las tormentas de la memoria. La otra historia es la de un amor que hace de esos tormentos su alimento. Un amor acechado por los enemigos: el deterioro fisico, la vejez, la muerte. Una muchacha de dieciocho anos rechaza al hombre de quien ha estado enamorada y con quien le han impedido unirse. Un deseo ahincado en si mismo, que avanza hacia su origen en un movimiento que no cesa.
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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"No One Writes to the Colonel" is a portrait of old age, that period when physical decay conflicts with still-alert mental pride. Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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El Otoño del Patriarca by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"Majestic . . . superb. . . . A stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky."--"New York Times Book Review."
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Esta herida llena de peces by Lorena Salazar Masso ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Una madre y su niño viajan en canoa por el caudaloso río Atrato. La madre es blanca, el niño es negro. Entre manglares, frutas y trenzas, la narradora le va contando a la pasajera de al lado su infancia, sus recuerdos y cómo el pequeño llegó a su vida una mañana calurosa. La lancha avanza, la inquietud se acrecienta. La mujer preferiría no llegar o dar la vuelta.
Esta es una historia sobre el arraigo, el miedo y la maternidad en un contexto de violencia, sobre los peligros de la selva colombiana. A través del lirismo de su prosa, ... continue
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Fiebre Tropical : A Novel by Julián Delgado Lopera EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Winner for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner of the 2021 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christia... continue
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
LibraryReads and Indie Next PickThis mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height of Pablo Escobar's violent reign is about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid whose unlikely friendship threatens to undo them both. Inspired by the author's own life, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different, but inextricably linked, coming-of-age stories.
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In The Beginning Was The Sea by Tomás González EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The young intellectuals J. and Elena leave behind their comfortable lives, the parties and the money in Medellin to settle down on a remote island. Their plan is to lead the good life, self-sufficient and close to nature. But from the very start, each day brings small defeats and imperceptible dramas, which gradually turn paradise into hell, as their surroundings inexorably claim back every inch of the 'civilisation' they brought with them. Based on a true story, 'In the Beginning Was the Sea' is a dramatic and searingly ironic account of the disastrous encounter of intellectual struggle with ... continue
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La hojarasca by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
La hojarasca (1955) es la historia del entierro de un hombre, un médico misterioso y odiado, al que sus vecinos quieren dejar insepulto. Al mismo tiempo es la historia del odio acumulado durante veinticinco años en Macondo, un lugar llamado a ser, pocos años después, famoso en el mundo entero.
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La mala hora by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Luego de las guerras políticas que han asolado a Macondo, y, cuando se anunciaban públicamente días de paz y tranquilidad, comienzan a aparecer en los muros unos papeles que revelan secretos y vergüenzas, verdaderos y falsos, de las gentes del pueblo. Poco después cae un diluvio bíblico y el alcalde decide elegir una víctima propiciatoria. Pero nadie se oculta la verdad: los carteles son obra de todos y todos descubren en ellos sus propias culpas.