Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (558)
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La casa de Dostoievsky by Jorge Edwards ES
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
De avonturen van een Chileense dichter in de jaren '50.
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La nana y el iceberg by Ariel Dorfman ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Con La Nana y el iceberg asistimos a una deslumbrante combinación de aventura, erotismo, suspense y humor desde ese Chile postPinochet marcado explosivamente por la historia. Un relato en el que la violencia y la represión actúan en forma de ecos de fondo...
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Ardiente paciencia : (el cartero de Neruda) by Antonio Skármeta ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Un joven pescador decide convertirse en cartero de Isla Negra, donde el único que recibe y envía correspondencia es el poeta Pablo Neruda. Entre ambos se forja una relación muy peculiar cuando el cartero recurre al poeta para seducir a su enamorada. La enrarecida atmosfera del Chile de aquellos años precipitara un dramático desenlace.
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El desierto by Carlos Franz ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Laura returns to the town of Pampa Hundida, a small Chilean town in the desert of Atacama, after twenty years of absence, where individuals and society must come to terms with each other and certain traditional rites confront the pragmatic considerations of European reason.
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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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Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote del Opus Dei, crítico literario y poeta mediocre, revisa su vida en una noche de fiebre alta en la que cree que va a morir. Y en su delirio febril van apareciendo Jünger y un pintor guatemalteco que se deja morir de in
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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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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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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