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Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.
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Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library “An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.” —PopSugar “This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It’s fabulous.” — Reese Witherspoon A powerful contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams... continue
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Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit around Juan Carlos Etchepare, an impossibly beautiful Lothario wasting away ever-so-slowly from consumption, while those who loved and were spurned by him move on into workaday lives and unhappy marriages. Part elegy, part melodrama, and part dirty joke, this wicked and charming nov... continue
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Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would. A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel. Taking place over the course of an evening, Mariana Dímopulos's mesmerising novella shifts seamlessly between the present and the past. In this dreamlike space, made from overlapping v... continue
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Jaguar’s Tomb by Angélica Gorodischer EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Recounting from Zero" ("Contar desde zero"), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars' tomb, the central space of the torture center, and t... continue
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Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.
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La casa by Manuel Mujica Lainez ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
La casa de la calle Florida, lacerada por la demolicion, busca en el recuerdo su resplandor perdido y nos cuenta su historia, entretejida con la de aquellos que la han habitado y con las voces de los objetos que la pueblan. Testigo de amores furtivos y traiciones, sus cimientos se estremecen al revivir el fraticidio consumado en el balcon una lejana noche de carnaval, o al recordar las pasiones clandestinas duplicadas en los espejos.Y asi, abandonada por sus moradores ilustres, su cuerpo dormido acoge, en un ultimo intento por retener la antigua nobleza, a los espectros del Caballero gris y de... continue
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La filosofía de Mafalda / The Philosophy of Mafalda by Quino ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
El pensamiento vivo de Mafalda, «una heroína de nuestro tiempo» (Umberto Eco) «La filosofía de Mafalda, ya un clásico, supone la vuelta en tiras esta primavera de la "hija" de Quino. Los bocados mafaldinos son un trago de humor negro pero siempre con un punto soñador que ayuda a refrescar el viaje. [...] Mafalda nos columpia de la carencia al ideal para traernos siempre de vuelta a la realidad. La suya es una filosofía en pequeñas dosis para aprender a aterrizar.» —Ana Abelenda, La Voz de Galicia Podrían decirse muchas sutilezas del mundo, pero hay que reconocer que a menudo puede parecer un i... continue
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La Mas Recondita Memoria de Los Hombres by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ES
SenegalDescription:
1938: African writer T. C Elimane, known as the black Rimbaud, publishes a novel entitled The Labyrinth of the Inhuman. Controversy breaks out, he is accused of plagiarism, the author disappears and his work becomes a cursed book. 2018: the young African writer residing in Paris Diégane Latyr Faye discovers the lost novel and decides to investigate the missing author. With the help of an enigmatic woman and a group of young African writers, the protagonist embarks on a journey in search of a myth and perhaps also of himself. The clues take him to the Buenos Aires of Sur magazine, Gombrowicz an... continue