Mystery books from Argentina
Recommended mystery books (6)
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If you are into mystery here are some mystery 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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El niño resentido by César González ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
«Una banda de arrogantes adolescentes sancionando sus propias leyes. Los ojos de nuestros amigos muertos nos miraban a toda ahora. Eran espíritus protectores aguardando nuestra visita. Montañas de ofrendas al dios más inmoral desperdigadas a nuestros pies. Un lago lleno de papeles de merca abiertos y lamidos. Dormíamos solo como breve tregua en la guerra contra la sociedad».
Investido por delincuentes venerados, blindado con ropa de marca, henchido de cadenas de oro el pecho y montado en una moto ajena, el protagonista doma el agravio de que algunos ten... continue
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Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In a single day, a journey across Buenos Aires reveals a daughter to her mother, a mother to herself, and the oppressive weight of received ideas to women connected by a fleeting encounter, twenty years before.
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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX "Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the... continue
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Kill the Next One by Federico Axat EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
An audacious psychological thriller where nothing is what it seems. Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become someone else's next target, like a kind of suicidal daisy chain. Ted understa... continue
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Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone — including two innocent teenage girls — to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira’s “fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin A... continue