Contemporary fiction books set in Chile (10)
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Bonsái & La vida privada de los árboles by Alejandro Zambra ES
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Condenado a la seriedad y a la impostura, Julio, el silencioso protagonista de Bonsái – la novela que supuso el brillante debut narrativo de Alejandro Zambra– acaba convenciéndose de que es mejor encerrarse en su cuarto a observar el crecimiento de un bonsái que vagar por los incómodos caminos de la literatura. En La vida privada de los árboles, segunda novela del autor, Verónica se demora inexplicablemente y el libro sigue hasta que ella regrese o hasta que Julián esté seguro de que ya no volverá. ¿Por qué leer y escribir libros en un mundo a punto de quebrarse? Esta pregunta ronda las dos ob... continue
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Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year... continue
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Outra novelinha russa by Gonzalo Maier ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
João e Dante são dois amigos recém-saídos da universidade no despertar dos anos 2000, idealistas e cheios de planos. Enquanto Dante acredita que pode fazer sua parte através de uma empresa inovadora, João tenta entender o mundo a partir da vivência nas ruas. De um lado, a ideia de que uma mudança real possa acontecer de dentro do sistema; do outro, o estado de constante vigilância e o medo de quem decidiu se juntar ao elo mais frágil da sociedade. Entre ideais compartilhados e ações opostas, os dois tentam manter a amizade e os sonhos enquanto lidam com a falência das suas escolhas.... continue
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2666 : A Novel by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008 New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds o... continue
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Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
On a long, near-silent drive with his father, a young man surveys the worn-out puzzle of his broken family.
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Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
La palabra piñen proviene del mapudungun, la lengua del pueblo mapuche, y se refiere al polvo o la mugre aferrada al cuerpo. Una palabra que se ha venido utilizando de forma peyorativa en Chile para referirse a personas racializadas o de extracción social baja. Daniela Catrileo hace suya esa palabra y la reivindica, como parte de la memoria oral de un pueblo oprimido, de un testimonio común, resignificándola. Este libro contiene tres relatos ubicados en la periferia urbana y social. La autora nos habla desde ese lugar, sobre lo que significa ser mujer y crecer en esos espacios más allá de las ... continue
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The Murmuration by Carlos Labbe EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Within the world of Labbé's fiction, The Murmuration can be understood as a continuation and broadening, a shift toward a more explicit expression of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterize all of his fiction. Popular forms and genres (from science fiction and journalism in Navidad & Matanza to detective fiction in Loquela to pop music and protest movements in Spiritual Choreographies) have always been integral to Labbé's novels, and with The Murmuration he makes his most direct appeal to the masse... continue
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Isla Decepción by Paulina Flores ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
ras renunciar a un trabajo que odia, Marcela huye de su vida en Santiago de Chile para visitar a su padre en Punta Arenas, en la Patagonia. Allí descubre que Miguel, con quien tiene una relación compleja, mantiene escondido a un joven coreano que un grupo de pescadores ha rescatado en el mar. Aislado tras un muro de silencio y una historia traumática, Lee es un misterio por descifrar, un superviviente en el que ambos se vuelcan para evitar resolver sus propias diferencias.