Books from Uruguay
30 popular uruguayan 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 Uruguay.
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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Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga, Arthur Livingston EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar.Translator: Arthur Livingston
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La Azotea by Fernanda Trías ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Empezamos allí donde terminamos: ¿qué ha ocurrido en este apartamento en ruinas, separado del mundo exterior?
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La sociedad de la nieve by Pablo Vierci ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
El relato definitivo de la tragedia de los Andes, donde el liderazgo y la capacidad de superación fueron decisivos. Si fuera ficción, resultaría inverosímil. Pero fue y es verdad, y todos los supervivientes hablan por primera vez desde aquel accidente de avión que los encontró con alrededor de veinte años en los Andes, a cuatro mil metros de altura, sin abrigo ni comida. Ahora cada uno de los dieciséis recuerda en primera persona cómo fueron los setenta y dos días en la cordillera, cómo superaron esa situación extrema, cómo entendieron la muerte, qué significó el accidente y cómo influyó en su... continue
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La vida breve by Juan Carlos Onetti ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausens wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.
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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's mother and sister died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded more than 11,000 feet up in the wilderness of the Andes, the survivors soon heard that the search for them had been called off - and realise the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends ... In a last desperate bid for safety, Nando and a teammate set off in search of help. They climbed 17,000-foot-high mou... continue
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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hi... continue
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Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
"It's the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home"--Page 4 of cover
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Pedro y el Capitán by Mario Benedetti ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Pedro y el Capit�n, que ha conmocionado al mundo por su crudeza y realismo, es una denuncia contra la tortura (una de las peores ignominias que practican los mecanismos del poder) y una defensa esperanzadora de la dignidad y de los derechos humanos. Pedro es un preso pol�tico. Durante su encierro es acosado y torturado f�sica y psicol�gicamente por el capit�n. Enfrentados por causas contrarias en una batalla desigual, la v�ctima y el verdugo habr�n de confirmar que hay valores eternos que ninguna fuerza represiva puede borrar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The torture practiced by totalitarian regimes i... continue