Books set in Ecuador (20)


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Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--

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El viajero de Praga by Javier Vásconez ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Después de una noche de visitas médicas bajo la lluvia, el Dr. Krontz decide tomarse vacaciones. Pero esta vez no irá al mar, donde suele encontrarse con su amigo el Dr. Cuestas, sino a la sierra. Y en estas vacaciones apacibles, resignadas, se encontrará con lo inesperado; hechos que lo harán evocar el pasado, la vida en Praga y en Barcelona, y posteriormente en el páramo ecuatoriano (mencionado también en La otra muerte del doctor) y luego en el Hospital de Quito; siempre con la sensación de que alguien lo sigue, lo vigila. La narraci... continue

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Floreana by Margret Wittmer EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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The true story of the author's 56 years spent living on Floreana in the Galapagos Islands. The story begins in 1932, when Margret Wittmer arrived on the island with her husband, stepson and two dogs.

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Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza ES

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A classic of Ecuadorian literature published in 1934. Knows as 'The Villagers' in English.

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Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
An indispensable analysis of great Spanish literature is offered. The objective is to permit teachers & students of Spanish literature an access for a clear understanding of the author & his work.

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Human Sacrifices : Stories by María Fernanda Ampuero EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "raw and savage" as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo). An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision, Ampuero considers the price paid by those on the margins so that the elite might lounge comfortably, considering themselves safe in their home... continue

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Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda ES

Rating: 3 (4 votes)
Description:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb... continue

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Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda EN

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"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb... continue

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Kazbek by Leonardo Valencia Assogna ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
El pintor Peer encomienda a Kazbek la redacción de textos que acompañen a una serie de ilustraciones de criaturas, “bichos”, que han salido del volcán al aumentar su actividad. Peer es alemán, radicado en Ecuador; Kazbek, ecuatoriano radicado en Barcelona. ¿Desde donde crea su arte cada uno? Tal vez, su obra es un cuadro con las referencias locales, más perceptibles; pero también el pentimiento, la mancha del dibujo original que se trasluce a través de las pinceladas que lo cubrieron. ¿Los bichos surgen del volcá... continue