Books from Chile
82 popular chilean 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 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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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Father Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, believes he is dying. During the course of a single night of feverish delirium, he relives some of the crucial events of his life, and encounters and 'converses' with prominent cultural and political figures, including General Augusto Pinochet.
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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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Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.
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Casa de campo by José Donoso ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
La gran metáfora histórica de Donoso; la representación en clave del Chile de los años 70 y del golpe militar. Una brillante alegoría del poder y la rebelión. La mansión señorial donde los Ventura, sus cónyuges y sus treinta y cinco hijos pasan el verano, lejos de la civilización, se alza como un espejismo en medio de la llanura. Por sus salones, pasillos, escalinatas y torreones deambulan los niños, poblando la casa con intrigas, transgresiones y juegos que cuestionan una perversión mayor: el orden impuesto por sus aristocráticos padres. Los Ventura organizan un fastuoso día de campo para los... continue
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Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A near-future fable about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s coming apart. Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep greenness of the forest. Pascale's partner, Marina, grew up in the vertical slums of Capital City, a place scarred by centuries of colonialism and now the ravages of feckless developers. Every day the couple fear a sinkhole will open up and take with it another poor neighborhood, another raft of desperate refugees from the hinterlands: the indigenous, the poor, who ar... continue
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Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” “A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times “Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books “Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Ti... continue
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Clara y confusa : Premio Herralde de Novela by Cynthia Rimsky ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
«No es casual que esta historia llegue a sus vidas. Significa que están preparados para entender que ningún copo de nieve cae en el lugar equivocado», nos dice el narrador, que ha empezado a trabajar como plomero. De camino a la casa de un cliente que asegura oír ruido de agua en una pared —una fuga fantasma, porque no hay rastro de humedad—, se detiene ante la cristalera de un centro cultural en el que hay una exposición. En la sala vacía, la artista descuelga uno de sus cuadros y hace algo inaudito. La artista se llama Clara, y el narrador queda atrapado por esa acción, que será el inicio de... continue
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Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of intense power' PHILIPPE SANDS The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable?... continue
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Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce : seguido de Diario de bar by Roberto Bolaño, A. G. Porta, Antoni García Porta ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce supuso el debut literario de Roberto Bolaño y A.G. Porta en 1984. Armada como novela policíaca, en ella se relatan las andanzas de Ángel Ros, joven barcelonés enamorado a partes iguales de una delincuente sudamericana y de la literatura, de la vida al límite y de la música de Morrison. Con estas coordenadas, pues, en las que el protagonista trata de sobrevivir en una realidad que le supera a cada paso que da, Bolaño y Porta trazan un mapa descarnado de la juventud, del país que éramos entonces y que probablemente seguimos siendo aún h... continue