Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (360)
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Hippie by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
A journey to the past. A map for the future. After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam’s famous Dam Square. Together they decide to take the fabled hippie trail across Europe to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus, in search of self-discovery. So begins a life-defining love story that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.
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A pediatra by Andréa del Fuego PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Cecília é o oposto do que se imagina de uma pediatra – uma mulher sem espírito maternal, pouco apreço por crianças e zero paciência para os pais e mães que as acompanham. Porém a medicina era um caminho natural para ela, que seguiu os passos do pai. Apesar de sua frieza com os pacientes, ela tem um consultório bem-sucedido, mas aos poucos se vê perdendo lugar para um pediatra humanista, que trabalha com doulas, parteiras e acompanha até partos domiciliares. Mesmo a obstetra cesarista com quem Cecília sempre... continue
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O Avesso Da Pele by Jeferson Tenório PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Um romance sobre identidade e as complexas relações raciais, sobre violência e negritude, O avesso da pele é uma obra contundente no panorama da nova ficção literária brasileira. O avesso da pele é a história de Pedro, que, após a morte do pai, assassinado numa desastrosa abordagem policial, sai em busca de resgatar o passado da família e refazer os caminhos paternos. Com uma narrativa sensível e por vezes brutal, Jeferson Tenório traz à superfície um país marcado pelo racismo e por um sistema educacional falido, e um denso relato sobre as relações entre pais e filhos. O que está em jogo é a v... continue
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Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations and comments on the structure of the story, blurring the line between fiction and reality and appearing very modern.
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Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
'My whole life I've avoided mirrors because I didn't really like what they had to show me, but today is different. Because I look at my reflection and don't hate myself right away.' Felipe doesn't believe someone like Caio could ever fall for someone like him. But over the next fifteen days, everything will change ...
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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In ... continue
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La hora de la estrella by Clarice Lispector ES
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Ésta es «la historia de una inocencia herida, de una miseria anónima», una breve e intensa visión del absurdo que supone una existencia anodina, una rutina vacía tanto de pensamientos como de afectos, como la de la insignificante y escuálida joven del Noreste permanentemente anonadada, una muchacha que «no sabía que ella era lo que era» y que por ello «no se sentía infeliz». En las páginas de La hora de la estrella aparece con toda su fuerza el personalísimo estilo de Clarice Lispector: su peculiar forma de transformar las palabras en imágenes vigorosas y puras se une aquí a una compleja estru... continue
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Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation,... continue