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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Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet underst... continue
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Het groene huis by Mario Vargas Llosa NL
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Episodes vol geweld en onrecht uit het leven rond een bordeel in een Peruaans provinciestadje.
23.
Historia de Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A political novel with a Communist protagonist, Alejandro Mayta, who was a leader in the 1958 revolution.
25.
Ice for Martians : Hielo Para Marcianos by Claudia Ulloa Donoso EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is skewed by the narrator's terror of her abusive partner, or "The Transfiguration of Melina," whose religious teenage heroine starts the story detached from her sexuality, and ends it anything but. More often, though, Claudia's characters are simply Martians: their perspective on the world is singular, whether they want it to be or not.
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In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez 'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent 'In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a great memoir requires - a strong voice, cinematic prose, a hero to root for - in essence, an extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman's life' - San Francisco Chronicle 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rare compassion, and a ferocious stubbornness to not allow the trauma of her childhood to destroy her l... continue
27.
Ines of My Soul : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A passionate tale of love, freedom, and conquest from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende. Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés Suárez, finds herself condemned to a life of poverty without opportunity as a lowly seamstress. But it's the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Struck by the same restless hope and opportunism, Inés uses her shiftless husband's disappearance to Peru as an excuse to embark on her own adventure. After learning of her husband's death in battle, she meets the fiery war hero, Pedro de ... continue
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Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds. (historical fiction). By the author of The Sum of Our Days.
29.
Kathie y el hipopótamo : comedia en dos actos by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Un intercambio en el que se juega un rato a fingir que lo que no se es, que se ha hecho en realidad aquello que se hubiera deseado. El diálogo entre Kathie, esposa rica y decepcionada, y su escriba, Santiago Zavala (el protagonista de la novela Conversación en La catedral), en el que entran y salen otros personajes de sus vidas, presentes y pasadas.
30.
Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.