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Fully Empowered by Pablo Neruda EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
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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How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
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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Ines of My Soul : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A passionate tale of love, freedom, and conquest from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende. Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés Suárez, finds herself condemned to a life of poverty without opportunity as a lowly seamstress. But it's the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Struck by the same restless hope and opportunism, Inés uses her shiftless husband's disappearance to Peru as an excuse to embark on her own adventure. After learning of her husband's death in battle, she meets the fiery war hero, Pedro de ... continue
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Isla Decepción by Paulina Flores ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
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
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
De avonturen van een Chileense dichter in de jaren '50.
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La nana y el iceberg by Ariel Dorfman ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Con La Nana y el iceberg asistimos a una deslumbrante combinación de aventura, erotismo, suspense y humor desde ese Chile postPinochet marcado explosivamente por la historia. Un relato en el que la violencia y la represión actúan en forma de ecos de fondo...
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La sociedad de la nieve by Pablo Vierci ES
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
El relato definitivo de la tragedia de los Andes, donde el liderazgo y la capacidad de superación fueron decisivos. Si fuera ficción, resultaría inverosímil. Pero fue y es verdad, y todos los supervivientes hablan por primera vez desde aquel accidente de avión que los encontró con alrededor de veinte años en los Andes, a cuatro mil metros de altura, sin abrigo ni comida. Ahora cada uno de los dieciséis recuerda en primera persona cómo fueron los setenta y dos días en la cordillera, cómo superaron esa situación extrema, cómo entendieron la muerte, qué significó el accidente y cómo influyó en su... continue