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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Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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Ten Women by Marcela Serrano EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn't be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common...except f... continue
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Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Pablo Neruda has been hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century & was a Nobel laureat. In these memoirs he also recounts his distinguished career as a diplomat & politician, during which he came to know iconic figures including Gandhi, Che Guevara & Mao Tse Tung.
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Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.
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2666 by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes; en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas.
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El gaucho insufrible by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Roberto Bolaño ha reunido en este libro cinco cuentos y dos conferencias. en Jim relata el encuentro con el americano más triste del mundo; con el gaucho insufrible seguimos a Pereda, un ejemplar abogado argentino que se reconvirtió en gaucho de las pampa
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El secreto del mal by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Libro inedito que el autor dejo listo para publicar antes de morir. Son piezas y esbozos narrativos, a los que se han adicionado otros cuentos de Bolano, en los que se mezclan relatos propiamente dichos y textos de naturaleza no narrativa.