Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1210)
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Legenden aus Guatemala by Miguel Angel Asturias DE
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Die schönsten Legenden von Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobelpreisträger von 1967, sind in diesem Band gesammelt. Sie sind ein Stück Ethnologie, eine einzigartige Symbiose aus Maya-Mythologie, Kindheitserinnerungen und erzählerischer Phantasie.
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Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A bookseller becomes infatuated with an alluring woman who shoplifts from his store and finds himself entangled in her mystery, until, disoriented, the border between rational and irrational blurs.
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El papa verde by Miguel Angel Asturias ES
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
"Segundo volumen de la ""Trilogia bananera""."
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The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo. A Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage. A Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations. A striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America. A university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference
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The Good Cripple by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America.
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Ita by Mónica Albizúrez, Mónica Albizúrez Gil ES
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Novela finalista del Certamen BAM Letras, 2017 (Guatemala)De pronto, una palabra rara, nunca antes escuchada, define la vida de Ita, una exitosa abogada guatemalteca que atraviesa los supuestos años de madurez de los cuarenta. Esa palabra, fibromialgia, da nombre a la experiencia del dolor que Ita intentará describir y comprender. El dolor del cuerpo conducirá a la protagonista de la novela a recuperar el pasado de su familia, especialmente a descifrar el abandono de la madre, una conocida artista que, por razones oscuras, dejó la carrera en pleno conflicto armado guatemalteco.Recorrer el pasa... continue
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Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
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I, Rigoberta Menchú : An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Mench, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Mench suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Mench vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the en... continue
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Clerise of Haiti by Marie-Therese Labossiere Thomas EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
A young domestic worker devoted to her prominent urban employers in Les Cayes, Haiti, Clerise progressively renounces the traditional values of her rural background. When she later marries and opens a small business, class conflicts and divided loyalties develop amid the terror of the Duvalier regime, and she is ultimately caught in the escalation of violence. Clerise of Haiti is a story of three generations of Haitian women, and covers a thirty year span ending in the late 1970s. Full of humor and resilience, Clerise's unique perspective into the upper classes and the world of the poor explor... continue