Books from Argentina
87 popular argentinian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Argentina.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wa... continue
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Seconds Out by Martín Kohan EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Music, sport and crime come together to recreate the past in a disturbing investigation that questions the media's role
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Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone — including two innocent teenage girls — to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira’s “fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin A... continue
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Siete Cuentos by Julio Cortazar ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns. Cor... continue
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Sobre héroes y tumbas by Ernesto R. Sábato ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Publicada en 1961, Sobre héroes y tumbas es la segunda novela escrita por Ernesto Sabato y da continuidad al mundo surgido de El túnel. Buena parte de su trama puede encajarse en la tradición de la bildungsroman, pues se centra en Martín, en su andadura por buscarse a sí mismo, y sirve al escritor argentino para exponer su particular visión sobre la soledad, tema esencial en su narrativa.
Durante sus habituales rumiaciones en el parque Lezama, Martín, hijo de un pintor fracasado y de una mujer de la calle, descubre a una joven misteriosa y herm... continue
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Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
¿En qué mundo vivimos? Es difícil responder porque hay muchos. Sin embargo Boga, el héroe pasivo de Sudeste, lo sabe bien. Es un saber físico, inexpresivo, formado en un silencio interior que sólo es capaz de oír el suave llamado de la música fluvial. Boga no es del todo un hombre –un hombre con nombre de pez no es otra cosa que un hombre-pez–, no tiene lo que los manuales de la civilización llaman una personalidad. Es una partícula de naturaleza que, como los camalotes que bajan del norte, se deja llevar. El gen... continue
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Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Sooner or later, we all face loss. Ten-year old Lito is almost sure that he can change the weather, if only he concentrates very hard. His father Mario, who is seriously ill, is anxious to create a life-long memory for the unsuspecting Lito and takes him on a road-trip in a truck called Pedro. Together, father and son embark on a journey through strange landscapes which blur the borders of the Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena tries to find solace in books - and soon undertakes a precarious adventure of her own that will chal... continue
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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest q... continue
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The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Fiona J. Mackintosh EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.