Popular South American Domestic Fiction Books
Find domestic fiction books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (9)
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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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Iphigenia : (The Diary of a Young Lady who Wrote Because She was Bored) by Teresa de la Parra EN
Country: South America / 
Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girl brought up in France and forced to return to Venezuela when her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolen by an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage. Written in 1924.
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My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain by Patricio Pron EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A young writer returns to his native Argentina to uncover a mystery surrounding his dying father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man, which he ties to the country's dark political past and his family's underground resistance activities.
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Sju tomme hus by Samantha Schweblin NO
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
I novellesamlingen Sju tomme hus utforsker Samanta Schweblin dagliglivets små og store fryktelige øyeblikk. Hun er skarp og presis og har en egen evne til å mane frem en ladet stemning. De som har lest hennes to romaner, Feberdrøm og Kentuki, vil kjenne igjen stilen. Hun skriver om det merkelige ved det normale, og det normale med det merkelige. Sju tomme hus fikk Ribera del Duero-prisen i 2015. Det er verdens største pris for noveller og deles ut annethvert år for beste novellesamling skrevet på spansk.
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The Waves Take You Home by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for hers... continue
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Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! “Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly “Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society, and the fragility of personal relationships. We learn the surprising truth of the three men’s death in the final chapter; the build-up to it is riveting.”—T... continue
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Trust by Hernan Diaz EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2022 Trust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s New York. Can one person change the course of history? A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. Now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage. Who will have the final word in their story of greed, love and betrayal? Compose... continue
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Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hi... continue