Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2096)
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La leyenda de los soles by Homero Aridjis ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
La leyenda de los soles es una historia situada en el a o 2027 en la ciudad de M xico. la urbe agoniza; no hay rboles ni agua y escasea la energ a el ctrica. el sol ya no es visible en las calles y la contaminaci n hace de los crep sculos manchones de luz ocre. el terror cubre la ciudad. En sus calles, una pareja es testigo de una trama c smica y realista urdida con los mitos aztecas y el panorama poco halag e o de la ciudad m s grande del mundo.
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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Un centro turístico caribeño especializado en secuestros falsos de cárteles es el lugar donde se desarrolla el profundo y satírico misterio del asesinato de Villoro.
En medio de escenificaciones de guerra de guerrillas, rumores de abejas asesinas y actividad de cárteles invasores, el ex rockero en recuperación Tony Góngora intenta resolver el misterio del asesinato de un buzo estadounidense. Mientras intenta reconstruir los acontecimientos del crimen, Tony descubre sus propios recuerdos extraños y esclarecedores: de una infancia sin padr... continue
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Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Julio Valdivieso, intelectual mexicano emigrado a Europa, vuelve a su país después de una larga ausencia. El PRI ha perdido al fin las elecciones y se inicia un peculiar período de transición. Julio vuelve a ese tiempo extraño de los regresos, donde se reencuentra con lo que pudo ser. En ese retorno extático y terrible se enfrenta a las claves de un amor perdido, la leyenda viva del poeta Ramón López Velarde, un episodio de la guerra cristera que depende de su propio nombre. En un singular rito de paso, regresa a una Ítaca azotada por el crimen organizado, la política entendida como conspiraci... continue
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz, G. Aroul EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 t... continue
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Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks.
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it. In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests. Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitán is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and g... continue
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Paradais by Fernanda Melchor EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor - an attractive married woman and mother - while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, ... continue
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The Remains by Margo Glantz EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora García travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.
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