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 Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press). “The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle “When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As a young woman com... continue
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The Wind Knows My Name : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta “Timely, provocative . . . emotionally satisfying . . . [a story about] the kindness of strangers who become family.”—The New York Times Book Review AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her ... continue
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Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds. (historical fiction). By the author of The Sum of Our Days.
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The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide vows to find her way back to Ethiopia, marry Maicaah, and become part of the village for real. But until she turns eighteen, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place that everyone tells her is home. Then Adelaide becomes friends with the five African-American students who sued for admission into the white high school. Even as she navigates her family's expectations and... continue
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Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
**The moving novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist – an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing – she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. They are an inseparable team, and – despite Irene’s engagement to an army captain – form a passionate connection. When an assignment leads them to uncover an unspeakable crime, they are ... continue
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The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A hauntingly beautiful debut for fans of Isabel Allende and Kazuo Ishiguro The yellow walls of Anaïs' family home loom over the sprawling city of Lima. When she left Peru and moved to London, she dared to hope she might have left the echoing voices of her ancestors behind - voices that reverberate through the corridors of the family mansion. But now she must return to Peru to organise the sale of the house, submerging herself once more in the constant whispers of her deceased relatives. What begins as an uneasy homecoming soon becomes a reckoning with secrets that refuse to stay buried, in thi... continue
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Cien Cuyes (Premio Alfaguara 2023) / One Hundred Guinea Pigs by Gustavo Rodríguez ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2023 «Una novela tragicómica que refleja uno de los grandes conflictos de nuestro tiempo». (Del acta del jurado) En un barrio residencial de Lima con vistas al mar languidecen unos ancianos de clase acomodada. Frasia, acuciada por sus necesidades económicas, pues tiene que sacar adelante a su hijo Nico, se ha ido convirtiendo en compañía imprescindible para algunos de ellos. Si consiguiera juntar diez cuyes, el dinero para comprar diez conejillos de Indias, podría, según le dijo siempre su tío, empezar una nueva vida. Así, todos los días cruza la ciudad en transporte... continue
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La literatura es fuego by Mariana de Althaus ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
"Traté de escribir una obra que no se limitara a ilustrar la vida de uno de los escritores más importantes del mundo, sino que transmitiera ese momento en el que una persona debe afrontar de golpe algo grande y merecido que activa esas zonas adoloridas del interior que le susurraran que no es verdad aquello que ha conseguido o que no es verdad aquello que ha conseguido o que no se lo merece. Porque conoció el rechazo, la humillación, la desesperación, porque fue alguna vez un niño al que le arrebataron lo más importante. Porque es peruano&q... continue
460.
The Storyteller : A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Seeing a photograph of an Amazon tribal storyteller, a Peruvian writer becomes certain that the man is one of his old school friends, and begins to imagine his transformation from the person he knew into a central member of the Machiguenga tribe.