Books set in Chile (53)
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The Days of the Rainbow : A Novel by Antonio Skarmeta EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
A novel based on the true story of how an advertising campaign caused the fall of Chile’s dictator, General Pinochet Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after having been imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet’s police. This doesn’t stop the ministry of the interior from asking Bettini, who is the best in the business, to come up with a plan for the upcoming referendum designed to say “yes” to Pinoc... continue
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The Obscene Bird of Night : Unabridged, Centennial Edition by José Donoso EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso's terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day
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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 Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press). “The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle “When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As a young woman com... continue
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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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Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. “An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homela... continue