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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Ştiri despre o răpire by Gabriel García Márquez RO
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez abordează istoria actuală a Columbiei, relatând sechestrarea a zece jurnalişti din ordinul lui Pablo Escobar, şeful cartelului de la Medellin. Faptele au loc într-un climat de puternice tensiuni sociale, marcat de ascensiunea traficanţilor de droguri. Cu măiestria sa narativă inconfundabilă, Garcia Marquez transformă un reportaj într-un roman-cronică dinamic şi documentat, care reflectă contradicţiile unei societăţi distruse de cel mai dăunator drog: puterea oferită de banii prea uşor obţinuţi.
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Sto lat samotności by Gabriel García Márquez PL
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Czego powinniśmy się nauczyć ze Sto lat samotności, przedstawiciela realizmu magicznego? Dowiedz się wszystkiego, co musisz wiedzieć o tym dziele w kompletnym i szczegółowym raporcie książkowym. W tej książeczce znajdziesz w szczególności : - Pełne streszczenie - Przedstawienie głównych bohaterów, takich jak José Arcadio Buendia i Ursula Iguarán - Analizę specyfiki utworu: Realizm magiczny, czas cykliczny i motyw samotności Analiza referencyjna pozwalająca szybko zrozumieć sens utworu.
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Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experi... continue
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Száz év magány by Gabriel García Márquez HU
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Latin-Amerika nemcsak leghíresebb, de egyben legreprezentatívabb regényének színhelye Macondó, egy képzeletbeli, szinte meseszerű városka az őserdők mélyén, ahol a Buendíák évszázados történetét kísérhetjük figyelemmel. A városka előbb felvirágzik, majd elpusztul, de a Buendíák sorsa lényegében változatlan marad: gazdagon vagy nyomorral küzdve egyaránt a társtalanság, az egyhangúság ellen lázadnak, amelyből a család minden tagja csak egy kivezető utat talál: a szenvedély és a szerelem megváltó lehetőségét. Az eposzként hömpölygő mesében végül kipusztulnak ugyan a Buendíák, kihal a család, de a... continue
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Tales From the Town of Widows by James Canon EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the ... continue
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The Bitch by Pilar Quintana EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up,' as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms - both meteorological and emotional - lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration or the many meanings of motherhood and love.
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The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account . . .of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón . . .
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The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Gabriel Santoro becomes estranged from his father when the latter devastatingly, and publicly, criticises his son's book about the flight of Jewish immigrants from Nazi Germany to Bogota in the 1930s. The conflict between father and son, their subsequent reconciliation and the mysterious death of the father lead the reader into an examination of the betrayal, guilt and obsession at the heart of Colombian society in World War II, when blacklists of German immigrants were circulated, effectively destroying countless lives. Half a century later, this moral dilemma re-emerges with a vengeance, in ... continue
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds : A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. “Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia... continue
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The Roots of the Guava Tree : Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia by Sonia Daccarett EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country. Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s. When she asks her parents questions about their family’s ethnicity and religion they answer evasively, defining their family religion and ethnicity as “nothing.” Grandparents and family members who speak Yiddish, Hebrew, and... continue