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)
371.
Poso Wells by María Gabriela Alemán Salvador ES
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Segunda novela de la autora.
372.
Novelas a la sombra by Javier Vásconez ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Novelas a la sombra -volumen prologado por Christopher Domínguez Michael- reúne El secreto, nouvelle, de intenciones metafísicas; El retorno de las moscas, novela de espionaje; La otra muerte del doctor, en donde se vuelve a dar vida a Josef Kronz, y Jardín Capelo, obra finalista del Premio Rómulo Gallegos; cuatro títulos que permiten observar la evolución estilística de Vásconez, una de las voces más imponentes de Ecuador.
373.
Kazbek by Leonardo Valencia Assogna ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
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
374.
El viajero de Praga by Javier Vásconez ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
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
375.
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
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.
376.
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the concep... continue
377.
The Queen of the Valley : A Spellbinding Historical Novel Based on True History by Lorena Hughes EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Against the backdrop of Colombia's lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun - into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. "A tale as rich and complex as the finest chocolate." --Marisel Vera, author of The Taste of Sugar Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cac... continue
378.
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
A classic of Ecuadorian literature published in 1934. Knows as 'The Villagers' in English.
379.
Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.
380.
The Queen of Water by Laura Resau, Maria Virginia Farinango EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.