Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (552)
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Das dritte Land by Karina Sainz Borgo DE
Country: South America / 
Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Angustias Romero ist auf der Flucht vor der Seuche. Mit ihrem Mann und den siebenmonatigen Zwillingen auf dem Rücken ist sie unterwegs in die Berge, auf dem Weg ins rettende Nachbarland. Überall Beschwernis, Hitze und Staub. Die beiden Kinder überleben die Reise nicht.
An der Grenze unterhält Visitación Salazar einen illegalen Friedhof: Das dritte Land. Gegen den Widerstand von Kartellen und Todesschwadronen bietet sie den Ausgestoßenen einen Grabplatz. Hier endlich findet die Mutter für die toten Zwillinge einen Ort. Sie beschließt, bei ihnen zu bl... continue
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German Room by Carla Maliandi EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
A non-coming of age story where a woman tries to escape her problems by moving to Germany, but instead finds her life only becoming more complicated.
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La morsure de la goyave by Marie Eugenia Mayobre FR
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Quelque part en Amérique latine, un après-midi de l’année 1939, Julia frappe à la porte de doña Yolanda pour demander du travail. Nul ne se doute alors que grandit en elle le fruit d’un péché. Lorsque Julia accouche, la maîtresse de maison prédit que l’enfant, Alfonso, sera responsable du destin tragique des femmes de la famille. Hélas, la prophétie se réalise : doña Yolanda puis toutes ses descendantes sombrent dans la folie.
Quand Primitiva, l’arrière-petite-fille timid... continue
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Volver a cuándo by María Elena Morán ES
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
PREMIO DE NOVELA CAFÉ GIJÓN 2022 La gran novela sobre la Venezuela del poschavismo y sus migrantes. Una nueva voz que vale la pena leer. La vida en la revolución fue bonita mientras fue promesa. Luego vinieron los fracasos, los del país y los propios. Cuando Nina pidió el divorcio, Camilo no solo se separó de ella, sino también de su hija Elisa: o eran los tres o no eran. En 2018, mientras Camilo ve pasar la crisis por la ventana, Nina es atropellada por ella. Su padre, el país y la revolución parecen haber muerto al mismo tiempo. Después de que Nina se va para Brasil, dejando a Elisa con la a... continue
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Iphigenia : (The Diary of a Young Lady who Wrote Because She was Bored) by Teresa de la Parra EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girl brought up in France and forced to return to Venezuela when her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolen by an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage. Written in 1924.
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The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolivar EN
Country: South America / Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for his own political program–which he has called ‘the Bolívarian Revolution’–these galvanizing words remain as relevant for current political and social struggles as they were in Bolivar’s own day.
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The Bastards by Bertène Juminer, A. James Arnold, Kandioura Drame, Keith O. Warner EN
Country: South America / 
French Guiana
French Guiana
Description:
This is a novel of education: social, political, radical, and medical. The protagonist is collective, a group of medical students from French Guiana at the University of Montpellier, France, who learn what separates them as Caribbean people from their French and African counterparts. Juminer characterizes the three principal types of men drawn together in the stuggle for emancipation: "those who sooner or later will opt for violence; those who, by their sterling example, prefer to work patiently in the socioprofessional arena, in order to instill a certain moral and civic sense in their countr... continue
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Papillon by Henri Charriere, Patrick O EN
Country: South America / French Guiana
French Guiana
Description:
Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, he suffered a solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil's Island, a hell-hole of disease and brutality. No one had ever escaped from this notorious prison - no one until Papillon took to the shark infested sea supported only by a makeshift coconut-sack raft. In thirteen years he made nine daring escapes, living through many fantasti... continue
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