Books from Peru
73 popular peruvian 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 Peru.
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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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. With the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza moves freely in a society of single men and prostitutes, creating an unconventional but independent life for herself. The young Chilean's search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey, and by the time she finally ... continue
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Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similiarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Part detective novel and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society; not only of the current political violence and social upheaval, but also of the country's past and its connection to Indian culture and pre-Hispanic mysticism.
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El hablador by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
En esta novela el autor contrapone con extraordinario virtuosismo técnico dos mundos qeu parecen vivir enfrentados, el de las sociedades modernas y el de los pueblos que viven en armonía con la naturaleza. A su vez conduce al lector a un viaje vertiginoso por el imaginario colectivo de los indios machiguengas, que le sirve para desarrollar, una vez más, una de sus obsesiones: el papel de la ficción en la vida los hombres.
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El lenguaje de la pasión by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Resumen: es una seleccion de los articulos que, en su columna Piedra de Toque, Mario Vargas LLosa publico en el diario el Pais entre los anos 1992 y 2000. En ellos nos ofrece su vision y analisis de la convulsa sociedad de fin de siglo abordando temas como la despenalizacion del aborto en Espana, los problemas derivados de la emigracion o sucesos como el presidio de Nelson Mandela en Robben Island. Es un libro que aporta claves significativas para entender la complejidad de nuestro tiempo.
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El paraíso en la otra esquina by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Dos vidas: la de Flora Tristán, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasión por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahití en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones. Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que sólo ve en él un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad. Qué tienen en común esas dos vidas?
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Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality through the creative power of her own imagination... "From the Paperback edition.
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Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.