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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Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.
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2666 by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes; en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas.
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El gaucho insufrible by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Roberto Bolaño ha reunido en este libro cinco cuentos y dos conferencias. en Jim relata el encuentro con el americano más triste del mundo; con el gaucho insufrible seguimos a Pereda, un ejemplar abogado argentino que se reconvirtió en gaucho de las pampa
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El secreto del mal by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Libro inedito que el autor dejo listo para publicar antes de morir. Son piezas y esbozos narrativos, a los que se han adicionado otros cuentos de Bolano, en los que se mezclan relatos propiamente dichos y textos de naturaleza no narrativa.
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A Last Supper of Queer Apostles : Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic “I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, ... continue
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Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of intense power' PHILIPPE SANDS The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable?... continue
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Violeta : Roman by Isabel Allende PT
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Violeta veio ao mundo em um dia tempestuoso de 1920, a primeira menina em uma família com cinco filhos. Desde o início, sua vida foi marcada por acontecimentos extraordinários: ainda era possível sentir os efeitos da Grande Guerra quando a gripe espanhola chegou ao seu país, pouco antes do seu nascimento.
A família saiu ilesa dessa crise, mas não conseguiu enfrentar a seguinte. A Grande Depressão transformou totalmente a vida urbana que Violeta conhecia. Sua família perdeu tudo e foi forçada a se mudar para uma parte mais... continue
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