Popular South American Contemporary Fiction Books
Find contemporary fiction books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (75)
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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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Catalina by Karla Cornejo Vollavicencio EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom “[A] sparkling fiction debut.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel.”—People (Ten Best Books of the Year) “Diabolically charming and magnetic.”—Ira Glass A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, them Wh... 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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Cometierra by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... 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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Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
For fans of David Cronenberg's films and lovers of Kafka, this gaucho-punk, sci-fi novel set in 2197 offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society on the brink of climate collapse. The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words “winter”, "cold”, or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time after 2197 – the year in which the last of the Antarctic icecaps melted and an unprecedented climate catastrophe ensued, radically transforming the landscape of the r... continue
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Dias de se fazer silêncio by Camila Maccari PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
"Camila Maccari: eis uma autora excepcional, que detém por completo o domínio da história e sabe como contá-la, usando uma linguagem dotada de conotação nos momentos certos e de forte realismo quando necessário. Digo com a segurança de quem muito leu e muito ensinou: Dias de se fazer silêncio ficará como um marco na atual literatura brasileira por razão de sua força dramática e por sua intensa e inesquecível literatura. " Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil Maria é apenas uma criança e enfrenta um turbilhão de sentimentos. Terá de lidar não só com o silêncio compulsório dentro de casa, mas com a doen... continue