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82 popular chilean books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Chile. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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El secreto del mal by Roberto Bolaño ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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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.
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Este Domingo by Jose Donoso ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Este material que precedió a “El obsceno pájaro de la noche” (obra que apareció por primera vez en España y no tardó en ser considerada como uno de los trabajos más sobresalientes del autor) permite desde su contenido recrear el ambiente de una costumbre que muchas familias aún mantienen en diversas partes del mundo: la de reunirse todos los domingos a almorzar.

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Estrella distante by Roberto Bolaño ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. Escribía poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducía a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvió a verlo después del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de un avión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y así nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la estética, dan... continue

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Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda EN

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An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems. "The Sea" A single entity, but no blood. A single caress, death or a rose. The sea comes in and puts our lives together and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing sin nights and days and men and living creatures. Its essence-fire and cold; movement, movement. Pablo Neruda himself regarded Fully Empowered -- which first appeared in Spanish in 1962 under the title Plenos Poderes -- as a particular favorite, in part because it came out of a most fruitful period in his life. These thirty-six poems vary fr... continue

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Hai kur mamashu chis: I want to tell you a story by Cristina Zarraga, Ursula Calderon, Cristina Calderon , EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Hai kur mamashu chis, or “I want to tell you a story,” as the Yagan grandmothers used to refer to their storytelling, is a journey through the landscape of the Yagan of a unique culture, rich in character, customs, and beliefs. Cristina Calderón is the only remaining native speaker and the last pure-blooded member of the Yagán people.
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How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
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A San Francisco Chronicle and Southwest Review Best Book of the Year and A World Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year “A dreamscape of a book. I adored this compelling, wise, and utterly unique coming-of-age tale.” —Tara Conklin For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D’s life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father’s trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies against the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M’s memories a... continue

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Isla Decepción by Paulina Flores ES

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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.

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La casa de Dostoievsky by Jorge Edwards ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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De avonturen van een Chileense dichter in de jaren '50.

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La literatura nazi en América by Roberto Bolaño ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Este libro es una ingeniosísima obra de ficción, compuesta de reseñas dedicadas a la vida y la obra de autores inexistentes de una literatura inexistente. Con la publicación en 1996 de este diccionario de autores infames, Bolaño llamó por primera vez la a
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