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 Encomienda by Margarita Garcia Robayo ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A disturbing novel about uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships and longing for the future... The narrator of these pages lives five thousand kilometers from her native country, works for an advertising agency, wants to apply for a scholarship to write in the Netherlands and has regular videoconferences with her sister. She sends her parcels, packages that include food, drawings of her nephews and from time to time a surprise, like an old photograph. Often the food arrives rotten. A series of figures and events will reveal the fissures that open up in the protagonist's ... continue
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Pablo Escobar : My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar, Sebasti©Ln Marroqu©Un EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The popular series Narcos captures only half the truth. This riveting, deeply personal memoir by Pablo Escobar's son reveals the full story.
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Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hi... continue
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Aguas de Estuario by Velia Vidal ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
En estas cartas, Velia Vidal relata sus andanzas desde que regresó al Chocó, al mar Pacífico, y se dedicó a la promoción de lectura y a la gestión cultural. Con elementos de su entorno, elabora metáforas que dan cuenta de su marea interna y de las tensiones entre el centro y la periferia. A través de su escritura, la autora construye una historia y una geografía personales.
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The Waves Take You Home by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for hers... continue
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Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, "Waiting for a hurricane," follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emotionally detached from her family and disillustioned with what the future holds, the takes drastic steps, seemingly oblivious to the damage she causes to herself and those around her. "Sexual education" examines the attempts of a student to tally the strict doctrine oabstinencece taught at her school with the very different social norms of her social circles. The short stories offer snapshots of lives in turmoil, frayed by relationships, dreams of escape, f... continue
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Drie Lilia's by Evelio Rosero NL
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Tancredo woont onder de hoede van pater Almida in een rustige kerk in Bogotá. Dagelijks verzorgt hij samen met drie weduwen, de Lilia’s, de middagmaaltijd voor minderbedeelden. Op maandag schuiven de hoeren aan, op dinsdag de blinden en op woensdag zijn de zwerfkinderen aan de beurt. Als pater Almida voor het eerst in veertig jaar bij de mis verstek moet laten gaan, wordt hij vervangen door de vrijmoedige en drankzuchtige pater Matamoros. Deze kleine verandering in de dagelijkse routine zorgt voor onrust en chaos. Tijdens een woelige nacht komen de nodige intriges aan het licht en geven de ach... continue
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Historia secreta de Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
«Usted me ha eliminado de mi propia vida. Usted, Joseph Conrad, me ha robado.» Londres, 1903. José Altamirano, colombiano de nacimiento, acaba de llegar de un país caribeño de cuyo nombre ya quisiera olvidarse. Arrastra consigo varias culpas y una historia de la cual se arrepiente; ha sido testigo de las cosas más terribles que le pueden pasar a una persona y también a un país. Pero nunca habría imaginado el encuentro que el destino tenía programado para él. Nunca habría imaginado lo que le ocurriría después de conocer al famoso novelista Joseph Conrad. «Historia, imaginación y aventuras en un... continue
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Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the crown. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, she was used by the crown to carry out the King's Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people. Now Renata is one of the Whispers, a rebel spy working against the crown. When Dez, her commander -- and the boy she's grown to love -- is taken captive by the notorious Principe Dorado, Renata must return to the palace and complete his top-secret mission herself. Can she keep her cover, even as she burns for vengeance against the brutal, enigm... continue