Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (543)
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Sangre en el ojo by Lina Meruane ES
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen finally occurs: her eyes haemorrhage. Within minutes, blood floods her vision, reducing her sight to sketched outlines and tones of grey, rendering her all but blind. As she begins to adjust to a very different life, those who love her begin to adjust to a very different woman--one who is angry, raw, funny, sinister, sexual and dizzyingly alive.
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100 Love Sonnets : Cien sonetos de amor by Pablo Neruda EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Against the backdrop of Isla Negra — the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific — Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda sets these joyfully sensual poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love: Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, the poet's "beloved wife." As popular in the Hispanic world as the poet's renowned Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair,One Hundred Love Sonnets has never before been published in its entirety in English translation. The reason for this astonishing neglect may lie in the historical circumsta... continue
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Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems. "The Sea" A single entity, but no blood. A single caress, death or a rose. The sea comes in and puts our lives together and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing sin nights and days and men and living creatures. Its essence-fire and cold; movement, movement. Pablo Neruda himself regarded Fully Empowered -- which first appeared in Spanish in 1962 under the title Plenos Poderes -- as a particular favorite, in part because it came out of a most fruitful period in his life. These thirty-six poems vary fr... continue
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Space Invaders : A Novel by Nona Fernández EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government offic... continue
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La casa de Dostoievsky by Jorge Edwards ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
De avonturen van een Chileense dichter in de jaren '50.
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La nana y el iceberg by Ariel Dorfman ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Con La Nana y el iceberg asistimos a una deslumbrante combinación de aventura, erotismo, suspense y humor desde ese Chile postPinochet marcado explosivamente por la historia. Un relato en el que la violencia y la represión actúan en forma de ecos de fondo...
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Ardiente paciencia : (el cartero de Neruda) by Antonio Skármeta ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Un joven pescador decide convertirse en cartero de Isla Negra, donde el único que recibe y envía correspondencia es el poeta Pablo Neruda. Entre ambos se forja una relación muy peculiar cuando el cartero recurre al poeta para seducir a su enamorada. La enrarecida atmosfera del Chile de aquellos años precipitara un dramático desenlace.
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El desierto by Carlos Franz ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Laura returns to the town of Pampa Hundida, a small Chilean town in the desert of Atacama, after twenty years of absence, where individuals and society must come to terms with each other and certain traditional rites confront the pragmatic considerations of European reason.