Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (522)
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The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ich... continue
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Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
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Los cachorros by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Los cachorros del autor peruano Vargas Llosa es un relato que busca en todo momento una voz plural (segun el autor, obra mas cantada que contada), que ondula de un personaje a otro, de lo subjetivo a lo objetivo. Obra que ha suscitado muchas interpretaciones y evocaciones diversas.
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La casa verde by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
?Cual es el secreto que encierra La casa verde?La casa verde ocurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre si, Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa Maria de Nieva, una factoria y mision religiosa perdida en el corazon de la Amazonia. Simbolo de la historia es la mitica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La casa verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa de Mario Vargas Llosa. La casa verde (1965) recibio al a?o siguiente de su ... continue
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Conversación en la catedral by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Zavalita y el zambo Ambrosio conversan en La Catedral. Estamos en Perú, durante el ochenio dictatorial del general Manuel A. Odría. Unas cuantas cervezas y un río de palabras en libertad para responder a la palabra amordazada por la dictadura. Los personajes, las historias que éstos cuentan, los fragmentos que van encajando, conforman la descripción minuciosa de un envilecimiento colectivo, el repaso de todos los caminos que hacen desembocar a un pueblo entero en la frustración.
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Pantaleón y las visitadoras by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Pantaleon Pantoja, a recently promoted army captain, is entrusted with a top-secret mission to establish a prostitution service for the Armed Forces of Peru. As a faithful soldier, Pantaleon transfers to Iquitos in the middle of the jungle, to carry out his mission. His enthusiasm, however, endangers the very scheme he has put in motion. Thus begins this novel, which was published in 1973 and later made into a film.
429.
Historia de Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A political novel with a Communist protagonist, Alejandro Mayta, who was a leader in the 1958 revolution.
430.
La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
At the end of the 19th century in the poverty-stricken northeast of Brazil an insurrection is simmering. As in all extreme situations, this insurrection that can only come from religious belief of the divine calling to all those who are marginalized, and the radical shattering of the rules that govern the world of the powerful. The first novel Vargas Llosa set outside Peru wondrously expresses the profound thoughts, irrational passions and unbridled social forces.