Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (778)
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How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year "Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice. Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing G... continue
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Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town. Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic a... continue
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Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands : Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories by Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A richly illustrated, bilingual book, this guide visits 20 villages in the Chiapas Highlands to showcase their stunning handwoven cloth while also providing an insider's look into their history, folklore, festivals, traditions, and daily lives. Ritual transvestites, Virgin statues draped with native blouses, tunics designed to look like howler monkey fur, and elaborately floral shawls and ponchos--these are just a few of the unforgettable images captured in the book. Also included are a pull-out map of the Chiapas Highlands and dates of special festivals and local markets.
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In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning o... continue
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My Name Is Emilia del Valle : A Novel by Isabel Allende EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she beg... continue
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The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero EN
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho’s cousin—who has made it obvio... continue
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Un mundo para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
Esta obra aparece en un momento culminante del llamado "boom." Pocas novelas han sido tantas cosas: retrato de la clase dominante, cronica del tiempo limeno perdido, denuncia de la ideologia de la clase burguesa, novela de la educacion y autobiografia heroica del autor.
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El orden del Aleph by Gustavo Faverón Patriau ES
Country: South America / Peru
Peru
Description:
El orden del Aleph es una exploración de la estética de Jorge Luis Borges a partir de su cuento más célebre, en una lectura que entreteje la filología, la cartografía, la filosofía y la historia para revelar las fuentes originales del relato y sus intuiciones finales, en particular las relacionadas con el contexto histórico en que fue escrito, en 1945, como una respuesta –melancólica pero esperanzada– a los horrores de su tiempo: el Holocausto, los bombardeos nucleares de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, la Guerra Mundial que lleg... continue