English books from Argentina
Recommended English books written by authors from Argentina (49)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Argentina for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wa... continue
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Seconds Out by Martín Kohan EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Music, sport and crime come together to recreate the past in a disturbing investigation that questions the media's role
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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
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Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Sooner or later, we all face loss. Ten-year old Lito is almost sure that he can change the weather, if only he concentrates very hard. His father Mario, who is seriously ill, is anxious to create a life-long memory for the unsuspecting Lito and takes him on a road-trip in a truck called Pedro. Together, father and son embark on a journey through strange landscapes which blur the borders of the Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena tries to find solace in books - and soon undertakes a precarious adventure of her own that will chal... continue
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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest q... continue
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The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Fiona J. Mackintosh EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.
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The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes- dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.
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The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Like his namesake Christopher Columbus, he has made a discovery of enormous significance for mankind. But whereas Christopher voyaged outward to explore the world and found America, Mateo looked inward and uncovered the clitoris.
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A masterpiece of contemporary Gothic from the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire.
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The ghetto within by Santiago H. Amigorena EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love. A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena’s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance,The Ghetto Within re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provok... continue