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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Turing’s Delirium by Edmundo Paz Soldán EN
Country: South America / 
Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
The town of Rio Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution--a war waged electronically, where computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries. This is an edgy story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the local, the virtual and the real.
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Juan de la Rosa : Memorias del último soldado de la Independencia by Nataniel Aguirre ES
Country: South America / Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Esta novela, considerada como la más importante de la historia de Bolivia, narra la historia de un niño huérfano desde la Revolución de Cochabamba (1810) hasta el ataque que sufrió la ciudad dos años después. En sus páginas se relatan las batallas de Aroma y de Amiraya o el sacrificio de las mujeres de Cochabamba, que resisten la carga de la caballería de Goyeneche en la colina de San Sebastián. Tradicionalmente, siempre se ha considerado al diplomático e historiador Nataniel Aguirre (Cochabamba, 1843 - Montevideo, 1888) como su autor, pero algunos estudiosos bolivianos creen que en realidad f... continue
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Noventa y ocho segundos sin sombra by Giovanna Rivero ES
Country: South America / Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Una novela sobre la realidad latinoamericana actual extremadamente afilada, despiadada y al mismo tiempo poética y delicada.
Por más que el derecho a la búsqueda de la felicidad forme parte de la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos de América, todo aquel que por edad, sabiduría o gobierno sea consciente de que ni la Lotería ni los Reyes Magos ni las Editoriales Independientes existen, sabe que el deseo de ser feliz es una de las más dañinas armas de destrucción masiva.
Y sin embargo nos preguntamos: &iqu... continue
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Las visiones by Edmundo Paz Soldán ES
Country: South America / Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Un juez comienza a tener visiones de los hombres que ha condenado a la cárcel. Un doctor encargado de experimentos con armas químicas se dispone a probar un compuesto letal con su propia gente. Un soldado tiene un ataque psicótico y sube a un techo a disparar a quien se mueva, sin saber que desde el cielo un dron sigue todos sus movimientos. Una niña es capaz de predecir el futuro y su madre quiere orientarla a ver cosas que los hagan más prósperos, pero la hija tiene otros planes. Estos cuentos magníficos y extraños sugieren que, en tiempos de guerra, la batalla principal está en mantener la ... continue
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Palacio quemado by Edmundo Paz Soldán ES
Country: South America / Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Cuando Oscar era apenas un niño, su padre trabajaba en el Palacio presidencial. Fue en ese mismo Palacio que Felipe, su hermano mayor, decidió suicidarse. Treinta años después, Oscar vuelve al Palacio convertido en escritor de discursos del presidente, en un período de convulsión social, y trata de descubrir el por qué del suicidio de su hermano y buscar las palabras con las cuales apaciguar los ánimos exaltados del pueblo. Ésta es una novela sobre la perversa relación entre el poder y la violencia, sobre el peso (o no) de la palabra para transformar un país, y sobre la redención a través de l... continue
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English ... continue
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands : A Moral and Amorous Tale by Jorge Amado EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
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The Diary of “Helena Morley” by Helena Morley EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Originally published in 1942 under the title Minha Vida de Menina—Portuguese meaning “My Life as a Little Girl or “Young Girl”—this book is a diary that was kept by the author, Helena Morley (pseudonym of Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant), when she was between the ages of twelve and fifteen (1893-1895), and living in Diamantina, a small diamond mining town in southeastern Brazil. The little girl describes her homework, her love of parades and dresses, her father who could scarcely make a living in the mines, and her most beloved grandmother. The diary was admired by French Novelist Georges Bernano... continue
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The Name of Death by Klester Cavalcanti EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy who could have been a fisherman but instead became the biggest professional killer known to the world--soon to be a major motion picture. Julio Santana as seen through the eyes of acclaimed investigative reporter Klester Cavalcanti is not a monster--he is a loyal son, a family man, a devout Christian who is tormented by his conscience with every shot. But in a cruel and lawless area of Brazil, where every life has its price, respect for life is a luxury that he can't afford. Trained by his uncle, an assassin, and initiated in murder at 17 years o... continue