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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The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America's pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666.
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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teaches the chick to fly.
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The Twilight Zone : A Novel by Nona Fernández EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime ... continue
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Tierra del fuego by Francisco Coloane FR
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Tierra del Fuego se distingue d'un simple recueil de nouvelles à la fois par l'unité du style, par celle des paysages, désolés ou grandioses, qui lui servent de cadre, et par les thèmes récurrents qui le traversent : histoires de folie et de mort dont le héros innommé est ce Grand Sud qui aimanta de tout temps les rêves de l'imaginaire sud-américain. Les personnages qui hantent ce bout du monde sont tous plus ou moins des exilés.Les récits qui s'enchaînent et se répondent sont fo... continue
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
"The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen, and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice. His third book, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada- 'twenty love poems and a song of despair' - was published in 1924 and attracted international acclaim. It remains one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years, with over a million copies sold worldwide. Neruda was award... continue
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Un Viejo Que Leia Novelas de Amor by Luis Sepulveda ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño vive en El Idilio, un pueblo remoto en la región amazónica de los indios shuar (mal llamados jíbaros), y con ellos aprendió a conocer la Selva y sus leyes, a respetar a los animales y los indígenas que la pueblan, pero también a cazar el temible tigrillo como ningún blanco jamás pudo hacerlo. Un buen día decidió leer con pasión las novelas de amor -«del verdadero, del que hace sufrir»- que dos veces al año le lleva el dentista Rubicundo Loachamín para distraer las solitarias noches ecuatoriales de su incipiente vejez. En ellas intenta alejarse un poco de la fanfarro... continue
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Una novelita lumpen by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
«Ahora soy una madre y también una mujer casada, pero no hace mucho fui una delincuente». Así inicia Bianca el relato de su dura entrada a la edad adulta en Roma, en Una novelita lumpen. Tras la temprana muerte de sus padres en un trágico accidente automovilístico, Bianca, poco más que una adolescente, protagonista y voz por medio de la cual se hilvana la narración, se descubre avocada al abismo de su indiferente existencia, dirigida irremediablementea un camino que no conduce a ningún futuro. Desde entonces dedica sus horas a lavar, tintar y cortar pelo mientras su hermano menor se mezcla con... continue
