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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The Nine : The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" —Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrest... continue
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L'énigme du retour by Dany Laferrière FR
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
"Il m'a donné naissance. / Je m'occupe de sa mort. / Entre naissance et mort / on s'est à peine croisés" (p. 276). Prose et vers libre entremêlés, l'auteur raconte l'histoire d'un Haïtien immigré à Montréal qui retourne dans son pays natal, 33 ans après l'avoir quitté. C'est l'annonce de la mort de son père, lui-même exilé à New York, qu'il n'avait pas revu depuis la petite enfance et qu'il lui faut maintenant enterrer, qui l'amène à accomplir ce voyage qui est par bien des côtés une façon symbolique de (se) rapatrier son père. Selon Danielle Laurin, le livre le plus achevé de Laferrière à ce ... continue
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Heading South by Dany Laferrière EN
Country: North America / Haiti
Haiti
Description:
Six beautiful middle-aged women travel to the island of Haiti looking for the passion they no longer find at home.
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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and gi... continue
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The Young Man That Challenged Death by Santos Chavez EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
The reason that made me write this book is the following. I been walking for over 20 years over a dark path in my life. I want to send a messege to all the children that had been abuse around the world. For them to belive on their self because on the end of the path their is a special light for each of them. I also want to explain a bit about all the despites of all our Central American brothers that risk everything to get to the United States. Many adventures many pathways we went through. Mamy mothers cried for what had been there treasures. Dreams that have been impossible. To the friends w... continue
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Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
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La sirvienta y el luchador by Horacio Castellanos Moya ES
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
El Vikingo, un viejo ex luchador profesional que quiere demostrar a sus superiores en la policía que sigue siendo un tipo duro capaz de cumplir todos los encargos, sale con otros compañeros con la misión de llevar a los calabozos del Palacio Negro a unos jóvenes sospechosos. Al día siguiente, una criada, María Elena, acude a servir por primera vez a casa del nieto recién casado de su antiguo patrón, y se encuentra con que no hay nadie para recibirla. Tras preguntar a los vecinos y recibir llamadas cada vez más alarmadas de la familia, María Elena intuye que la desaparición de Albertico y Brita... continue
