Books from Colombia
77 popular colombian books
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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 Colombia.
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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100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin ... continue
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A trăi pentru a-ţi povesti viaţa by Gabriel García Márquez RO
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Acest volum de memorii vine să consfinţească faptul că aproape tot ce se ştie despre Gabriel García Márquez provine din interviurile şi din opera sa şi să aducă mărturii emoţionante despre "viaţa secretă" a autorului căci, aşa cum acesta se destăinuie, "omul are trei vieţi: viaţa publică, viaţa particulară şi viaţa secretă, cea pe care o povestim cel mai adesea noi, scriitorii; toată viaţa mea este încifrată în romanele mele". Iar cartea de faţă oferă cu generozitate cifrul prin care cititorului îi este îngăduit să pătrundă în uni... continue
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Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner "An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling eventsin this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life fromColombian writer Quintana (TheBitch). Readers will be dazzled." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy mother spends her day... 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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America, Let Me In : A Choose Your Immigration Journey by Felipe Torres Medina EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and confusion of the immigration system and explaining that craziness to the clueless Americans around him. There are few subjects that Americans have stronger opinions on. And there are few subjects that they know less about. So, like many immigrants before him, Torres Medina sets out... continue
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An Orphan World by Giuseppe Caputo EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A visionary novel about fathers and sons, sexual orientation, poverty, loneliness and love, set in a world of both prejudice and poverty, and dazzling, chaotic liberation.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dish... continue
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Chronik eines angekündigten Todes by Gabriel García Márquez DE
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Ein Dorf an der kolumbianischen Karibikküste feiert ein rauschendes Hochzeitsfest. Doch noch in der Hochzeitsnacht wird die Braut in ihr Elternhaus zurückgebracht: sie war nicht unberührt. Der mutmassliche Täter muss sterben... (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).
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Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
El libro se compone de 20 capítulos no titulados, en los cuales se narra una historia con una estructura cíclica temporal, ya que los acontecimientos del pueblo y de la familia Buendía, así como los nombres de los personajes se repiten una y otra vez, fusionando la fantasía con la realidad. En los tres primeros capítulos se narra el éxodo de un grupo de familias y el establecimiento del pueblo de Macondo, desde el capítulo 4 hasta el 16 se trata el desarrollo económico, político y social del pueblo y los últimos cuatr... continue
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Criacuervo by Orlando Echeverri ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Tras el declive de su carrera como nadador olímpico en la federación alemana, Adler Zweig se debate cómo rehacer su vida, cuando la llegada de una fotografía donde está retratado su hermano mayor, Klaus, le plantea la posibilidad de reunirse con él en un desierto del norte de Colombia.La persona que le envía el retrato, Cora Baumann, fue una amiga de su infancia y la novia de su hermano durante la adolescencia. La reunión entre Cora y Adler, que en un principio se limita a los preparativos para el viaje al desierto, desencadena en él una meticulosa reflexión acerca de su propio pasado: el desa... continue