Historical fiction books from Colombia
Recommended historical fiction books (8)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Colombia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
LibraryReads and Indie Next PickThis mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height of Pablo Escobar's violent reign is about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid whose unlikely friendship threatens to undo them both. Inspired by the author's own life, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different, but inextricably linked, coming-of-age stories.
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La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The novel is set in at least three different bioregions of Colombia during the rubber boom. This novel narrates the adventures of Arturo Cova, a hot-headed proud chauvinist and his lover Alicia, as they elope from Bogotá, through the eastern plains and later, escaping from criminal misgivings, through the amazon rainforest of Colombia. In this way Rivera is able to describe the magic of these regions, with their rich biodiversity, and the lifestyle of the inhabitants. However, one of the main objectives of the novel is to reveal the appalling conditions that workers in the rubber factories exp... continue
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María by Jorge Isaacs ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Jorge Isaacs' María is perhaps the best known, most frequently read 19th century Spanish American novel, but at the same time, the most often misunderstood by modern readers and critics alike. The novel has been labeled by some critics as a real tear-jerker that seeks to revive, and to share with the reader, the loss of a first love. The story is recounted by Efraín, a first-person narrator, who tells it in retrospection, reconstructing the events and feelings of the moment, but in many instances reacting to that past in the emotional framework of the present. The abundant weeping in the tale ... continue
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Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco Ramos ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio, the... continue
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Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Bogota, années 1980. María, Andrés et Ernesto sont trois âmes tourmentées qui errent dans les rues de la ville. Jusqu'au jour où ils croisent le chemin de Campo Elías, vétéran du Vietnam hanté par ses souvenirs de guerre et obsédé par le thème du double maléfique. Roman inspiré par un fait divers. Bogota, années 1980. Lasse de vivre d'expédients, María décide de prendre sa revanche sur la société en dépouillant les clients des clubs chics de la ville. Artiste à succès, Andrés découvre que ses portraits prédisent les maladies dont ses modèles vont souffrir. Prêtre dans un quartier populaire, Er... continue
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Tales From the Town of Widows by James Canon EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the ... continue
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The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
* National Bestseller and Dublin Literary Award winner * Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this New York Times-bestselling, award-winning, gorgeously wrought novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his hom... continue