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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The Queen of Water by Laura Resau, Maria Virginia Farinango EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.
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Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb... continue
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Las voladoras by Mónica Ojeda PT
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Mónica Ojeda tem sido reconhecida por seu modo peculiar de narrar o horror. Nesse sentido, em entrevista à jornalista Andrea Aguilar para o El país, a autora defende: a geografia determina a forma como se vê e como se conta o mundo. Este conjunto de oito contos parte da geografia avassaladora dos Andes equatorianos e aborda, impiedosamente, questões que passam pelas relações de amizade, de vizinhança e familiares em geral, atravessadas por elementos como a sexualidade, a violência, a dor, a vida e a morte. Em Voladoras , encontramos criaturas que sobem nos telhados de suas casas e voam, terrem... continue
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The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Cardenas EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Three childhood friends reunite to transform Ecuador only find their idealism has succumbed to the cynicism of their fathers.
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Fiebre de carnaval by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano ES
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
La memoria musical y sensible del carnaval de Esmeraldas resucita en Ainhoa, una niña de la isla de Limones, secretos familiares y episodios de violencia. En Fiebre de Carnaval cobra vida el mundo que la rodea en cada palabra, en cada ritmo que se baila, se contagia y que puede oírse en estas páginas. Gracias a una serie de recuerdos se construye una novela en la que cronología es imperceptible, y que da forma al cuerpo de la niña-máquina deseante, que a su vez es el de las mujeres que la criaron.
El barrio en el que vive la abuela materna de Ainhoa, ... continue
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Catalina by Karla Cornejo Vollavicencio EN
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom “[A] sparkling fiction debut.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel.”—People “Diabolically charming and magnetic.”—Ira Glass When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle chi... continue
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Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas EN
Country: South America / 
Guyana
Guyana
Description:
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Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
In his tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, first published in 1960, Wilson Harris revealed the unique poetic vision and laid out the themes and designs, not only of his famous work, The Guyana Quartet, but of all his future work. The Palace of the Peacock displays that vision in all its hallucinatory vividness, given additional impact by its rejection of the conventions of the twentieth-century novel and the uncompromising energy of its use of language in its response to character and landscape. The compelling adventure story of the narrative is para... continue
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The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville EN
Country: South America / Guyana
Guyana
Description:
The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture and of the rebellious nature of love.