Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2099)
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Simone by Eduardo Lalo, Elsa Noya ES
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
"Dos escrituras se entrecruzan en las calles de San Juan, la capital puertorriqueña. Un escritor anota en un cuaderno el frágil contenido de sus días de supervivencia, mientras recibe anónimos que no sabe si son mensajes, citas u obras de arte. Desde estos extremos se narra en esta novela lo que no se sabe si es persecución o búsqueda y que al final resultará en un amor truncado y conmovedor." --Back cover.
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Salomé by Elaine Vilar Madruga ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
En un futuro en el que los humanos cazan criaturas invaluables en planetas desconocidos, una de ellas cae en manos de las más altas jerarquías del imperio galáctico y es la razón de motines y desconfianza. El poder político se ve desestabilizado al nacer dentro de los gobernantes un hambriento deseo, despierto por este ser del espacio exterior, cuyo destino recuerda a las primeras historias de la humanidad. Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Calendario 2013 y el Premio Agustín Rojas de la Crítica a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción publicada en Cuba el mismo año.
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Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
From the Publisher: Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
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I Was Never the First Lady : A Novel by Wendy Guerra EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a radio show government censors block from broadcasting. Frustrated, Nadia finds hope and a way out when she wins a scholarship to study in Russia. Leav... continue
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La carne de René by Virgilio Piñera ES
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
René tiene 20 años y está listo para aprender el culto a la carne, «no de carne intacta y atlética, sino de carne sacrificada, verdaderamente viva y palpitante como una herida». Su padre lo exhorta a elegir el camino del sufrimiento, enviando al héroe reticente a una escuela de dolor y tortura donde se aplica literalmente la doctrina de que «el conocimiento debe ser inculcado a golpes». Piñera, cubano, crea un mundo completamente carnal —solo a veces erótico— donde los mataderos reciben nombres como los de los... continue
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The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a ... continue
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The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Cuban writer Ivan Cardena Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him 'the man who loved dogs'. The man confesses that he is Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, and that he is now in secret exile in Cuba. This is Leonardo Padura's most brilliantly executed novel yet. It is the story of revolutions fought and betrayed, the ways in which political convictions are continually tested, and a critique of the role of fear in consolidating power.
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Finding Manana : A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito EN
Country: North America / Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A vibrant, moving memoir of prizewinning journalist and New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito and her departure from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift—an enduring story of a family caught up in the tumultuous politics of the twentieth century. Mirta Ojito was one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees who traveled to Miami during the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift. Growing up, Ojito was eager to fit in and join Castro’s Young Pioneers, but as she grew older and began to understand the darker side of the Cuban revolution, she and her family began to aspire to a safer, ... continue