Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (544)
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Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic cavalcade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
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Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experi... continue
303.
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year... continue
304.
Outra novelinha russa by Gonzalo Maier ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
João e Dante são dois amigos recém-saídos da universidade no despertar dos anos 2000, idealistas e cheios de planos. Enquanto Dante acredita que pode fazer sua parte através de uma empresa inovadora, João tenta entender o mundo a partir da vivência nas ruas. De um lado, a ideia de que uma mudança real possa acontecer de dentro do sistema; do outro, o estado de constante vigilância e o medo de quem decidiu se juntar ao elo mais frágil da sociedade. Entre ideais compartilhados e ações opostas, os dois tentam manter a amizade e os sonhos enquanto lidam com a falência das suas escolhas.... continue
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Voyager : The Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
One of the world's foremost spots for astronomical observation, the Atacama Desert in Chile is also where, in October 1973, twenty-six people were executed by Pinochet's Caravan of Death. Decades on, a petition gathers for a constellation's stars to be dedicated to them. Nona Fernández is made a god-mother to Mario Argüelles Toro, star HD89353, and asked to write a message to his family. When her own mother begins to suffer from fainting spells, Fernández accompanies her to neurological examinations. There, the mapping of her mother's brain activity - groups of neurons glowing and sparking on ... continue
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Tierra del fuego by Francisco Coloane FR
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Tierra del Fuego se distingue d'un simple recueil de nouvelles à la fois par l'unité du style, par celle des paysages, désolés ou grandioses, qui lui servent de cadre, et par les thèmes récurrents qui le traversent : histoires de folie et de mort dont le héros innommé est ce Grand Sud qui aimanta de tout temps les rêves de l'imaginaire sud-américain. Les personnages qui hantent ce bout du monde sont tous plus ou moins des exilés.Les récits qui s'enchaînent et se répondent sont fo... continue
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100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin ... continue
308.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first decl... continue
309.
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.
310.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dish... continue