Popular South American Political Books
Find political books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (12)
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The Twilight Zone : A Novel by Nona Fernández EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime ... continue
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Wij slaven van Suriname by Cornelis Gerard Anton Kom NL
Country: South America / 
Suriname
Suriname
Description:
Geschiedenis van het lot van de slaven in Suriname en hun bestaan na de afschaffing van de slavernij (1863), beschreven door een Surinamer, die om zijn politieke activiteiten uit Suriname verbannen werd.