Read Around South America Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.

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Best books from South America (558)
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Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland... Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she's not sure she can trust, but who may be Alex's only chance at saving her family. Brooklyn Brujas Series: Labyrinth Lost (Book 1) Bruja Born (Book 2) Praise for Labyrinth Lost: An NPR Best Young Adult Book of 2016 To... continue

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Poso Wells by María Gabriela Alemán Salvador ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Segunda novela de la autora.

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Novelas a la sombra by Javier Vásconez ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Novelas a la sombra -volumen prologado por Christopher Domínguez Michael- reúne El secreto, nouvelle, de intenciones metafísicas; El retorno de las moscas, novela de espionaje; La otra muerte del doctor, en donde se vuelve a dar vida a Josef Kronz, y Jardín Capelo, obra finalista del Premio Rómulo Gallegos; cuatro títulos que permiten observar la evolución estilística de Vásconez, una de las voces más imponentes de Ecuador.

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Kazbek by Leonardo Valencia Assogna ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
El pintor Peer encomienda a Kazbek la redacción de textos que acompañen a una serie de ilustraciones de criaturas, “bichos”, que han salido del volcán al aumentar su actividad. Peer es alemán, radicado en Ecuador; Kazbek, ecuatoriano radicado en Barcelona. ¿Desde donde crea su arte cada uno? Tal vez, su obra es un cuadro con las referencias locales, más perceptibles; pero también el pentimiento, la mancha del dibujo original que se trasluce a través de las pinceladas que lo cubrieron. ¿Los bichos surgen del volcá... continue

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El viajero de Praga by Javier Vásconez ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Después de una noche de visitas médicas bajo la lluvia, el Dr. Krontz decide tomarse vacaciones. Pero esta vez no irá al mar, donde suele encontrarse con su amigo el Dr. Cuestas, sino a la sierra. Y en estas vacaciones apacibles, resignadas, se encontrará con lo inesperado; hechos que lo harán evocar el pasado, la vida en Praga y en Barcelona, y posteriormente en el páramo ecuatoriano (mencionado también en La otra muerte del doctor) y luego en el Hospital de Quito; siempre con la sensación de que alguien lo sigue, lo vigila. La narraci... continue

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Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
An indispensable analysis of great Spanish literature is offered. The objective is to permit teachers & students of Spanish literature an access for a clear understanding of the author & his work.

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Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez EN

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Description:
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the concep... continue

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The Queen of the Valley : A Spellbinding Historical Novel Based on True History by Lorena Hughes EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Against the backdrop of Colombia's lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun - into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. "A tale as rich and complex as the finest chocolate." --Marisel Vera, author of The Taste of Sugar Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cac... continue

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Huasipungo by Jorge Icaza ES

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Description:
A classic of Ecuadorian literature published in 1934. Knows as 'The Villagers' in English.

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Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.