Books from Chile
63 popular chilean books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
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 Chile.
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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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.
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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 Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche by José Donoso EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
"The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as his companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Among its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader's mind."--BOOK JACKET.
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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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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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How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A San Francisco Chronicle and Southwest Review Best Book of the Year and A World Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year “A dreamscape of a book. I adored this compelling, wise, and utterly unique coming-of-age tale.” —Tara Conklin For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D’s life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father’s trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies against the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M’s memories a... 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...