Crime books from Argentina
Recommended crime books (4)
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If you are into crime here are some crime books from Argentina for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimopulos EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
This highly acclaimed contemporary Argentinian novel is the first in Giramondo’s Literature of the South series, featuring innovative fiction and non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. It is translated from the Spanish by Australian translator Alice Whitmore. All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Málaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship. Within the complexity of the ... continue
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Crimenes Imperceptibles by Guillermo Martínez ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
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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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
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