Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (1137)
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Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegra, Darwin J. Flakoll EN
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly fa... continue
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The Sky Weeps for Me by Sergio Ramírez EN
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Inspector Bert Dixon, former Sandinista guerilla fighters now attached to the Nicaraguan Police Department for Narcotics, investigate the disappearance of a young woman after discovering an abandoned yacht and a wedding dress. The case brings them face to face with Cali and Sinaloa cartel smugglers, and corrupt colleagues. Sergio Ramirez (A Thousand Deaths Plus One; Divine Punishment) portrays an unsettled and impoverished Central American country attempting a retain the shreds of its revolutionary ideals.
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Luisa in Realityland by Claribel Alegría, Pedro Caubet, Darwin Flakoll, Erik Flakoll EN
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
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Natural History : A Novel by Carlos Fonseca EN
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the de... continue
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Bewohnte Frau by Gioconda Belli DE
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Belletristik : Nicaragua ; Frau - Diktatur.
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La mujer habitada by Gioconda Belli ES
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Tras terminar sus estudios de arquitectura en Europa, Lavinia regresa a Latinoamérica para emprender su camino como mujer independiente. Pero sus planes cambian cuando conoce a Felipe, con quien establece una profunda relación sentimental. A su lado le llega la oportunidad de implicarse en las luchas populares y los movimientos de liberación de la dictadura de su país, conectando de ese modo con Itzá, una indígena que luchó contra los invasores españoles y que ahora despierta reencarnada en un naranjo para acompañar, apoyar e inspirar a Lavinia. Gioconda Belli narra con poesía e inteligencia u... continue
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El infinito en la palma de la mano by Gioconda Belli ES
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
El mágico relato de nuestros orígenes es probablemente el que más fascinación ha inspirado en la humanidad a lo largo de los tiempos. Pero, más allá de los cuarenta versículos que la Biblia dedica a Adán y Eva, más allá incluso de la leyenda, ¿cómo sería la vida de aquella inocente, valiente y conmovedora primera pareja? ¿Cómo sería aquel universo primigenio? ¿Cuál fue el impulso que motivó a que Eva tomara la manzana prohibida? ¿Y qué pensamientos le pasaron por la cabeza a ambos una vez que comprendieron las consecuencias de lo que Eva acababa de hacer? Prepárese para adentrar en un mundo fa... continue
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The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez EN
Country: North America / 
Panama
Panama
Description:
When Alma Rivera arrives in Delaware she is full of the promise and possibilities of her new home. Hope that her daughter Maribel will be helped by the specialist support US education can provide, and faith that her husband Arturo will flourish in a country that celebrates the hard-working. But life without status, money, family and friends soon becomes unmanageable and violent. Told through a range of perspectives written with compassion and grace, Cristina Henríquez gives voice to the displaced and the unknown, and shows what it means to uproot your life in search of something better.
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The Old Gringo : A Novel by Carlos Fuentes EN
Country: North America / Panama
Panama
Description:
In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is,... continue