Books from Ecuador
20 popular ecuadorian 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 Ecuador.
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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Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland... Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she's not sure she can trust, but who may be Alex's only chance at saving her family. Brooklyn Brujas Series: Labyrinth Lost (Book 1) Bruja Born (Book 2) Praise for Labyrinth Lost: An NPR Best Young Adult Book of 2016 To... continue
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Novelas a la sombra by Javier Vásconez ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Novelas a la sombra -volumen prologado por Christopher Domínguez Michael- reúne El secreto, nouvelle, de intenciones metafísicas; El retorno de las moscas, novela de espionaje; La otra muerte del doctor, en donde se vuelve a dar vida a Josef Kronz, y Jardín Capelo, obra finalista del Premio Rómulo Gallegos; cuatro títulos que permiten observar la evolución estilística de Vásconez, una de las voces más imponentes de Ecuador.
14.
Poso Wells by María Gabriela Alemán Salvador ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Segunda novela de la autora.
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Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the concep... continue
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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina : A Novel by Zoraida Córdova EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"A ... novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited"--
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The Queen of the Valley : A Spellbinding Historical Novel Based on True History by Lorena Hughes EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Against the backdrop of Colombia's lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun - into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. "A tale as rich and complex as the finest chocolate." --Marisel Vera, author of The Taste of Sugar Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cac... continue
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The Spanish Daughter : A Gripping Latinx Historical Novel by Lorena Hughes EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.
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This world does not belong to us by Natalia Garcia Freire EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Many years have passed since Lucas was expelled from his childhood home by Felisberto and Eloy, the two men who arrived uninvited and slowly, insidiously, made it their own. Now Lucas is back, fully grown and intent on claiming his rightful inheritance.
But he is not interested in the house as it once was, in his mother's lovingly planted flowerbeds - now conquered by weeds - nor in the lavish portraits covering every wall. Lucas belongs to a darker world, one crawling with the only creatures he really trusts: insects. As the house crumbles before his eyes, Lucas turns to the allies of... continue