Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2032)
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Legenden aus Guatemala by Miguel Angel Asturias DE
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Die schönsten Legenden von Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobelpreisträger von 1967, sind in diesem Band gesammelt. Sie sind ein Stück Ethnologie, eine einzigartige Symbiose aus Maya-Mythologie, Kindheitserinnerungen und erzählerischer Phantasie.
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Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A bookseller becomes infatuated with an alluring woman who shoplifts from his store and finds himself entangled in her mystery, until, disoriented, the border between rational and irrational blurs.
483.
El papa verde by Miguel Angel Asturias ES
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
"Segundo volumen de la ""Trilogia bananera""."
485.
The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo. A Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage. A Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations. A striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America. A university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference
486.
The Good Cripple by Rodrigo Rey Rosa EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America.
487.
Ita by Mónica Albizúrez, Mónica Albizúrez Gil ES
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Novela finalista del Certamen BAM Letras, 2017 (Guatemala)De pronto, una palabra rara, nunca antes escuchada, define la vida de Ita, una exitosa abogada guatemalteca que atraviesa los supuestos años de madurez de los cuarenta. Esa palabra, fibromialgia, da nombre a la experiencia del dolor que Ita intentará describir y comprender. El dolor del cuerpo conducirá a la protagonista de la novela a recuperar el pasado de su familia, especialmente a descifrar el abandono de la madre, una conocida artista que, por razones oscuras, dejó la carrera en pleno conflicto armado guatemalteco.Recorrer el pasa... continue
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Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, confronts the crude realities of farming life, family obligation, and the intrusions of merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers, and fallen angels, all wanting their piece of the pie. Told with precision and a stark beauty, Trout, Belly Up is a beguiling, disturbing ensemble of moments set in the heart of a rural landscape in a country where brutality is never far from the surface.
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I, Rigoberta Menchú : An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Mench, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Mench suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Mench vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the en... continue
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Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the "men of maize"—serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of l... continue