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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Child of the Dark : The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
An uneducated Black woman exposes the squalid living conditions and savage human relationships that she experienced in a Brazilian slum.
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The Curse of the Flores Women : A Novel by Angélica Lopes EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
In this haunting novel about the enduring bonds of womanhood, a young girl weaves together the truth behind her family history and the secrets that resonate through generations. Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting--against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a family veil is passed down to her, Alice is compelled to fight for the rights of all womankind while also uncovering the hidden history of the women in her family. Seven generations ago, the small town of Bom Retiro shunned the Flores women because of a "curse" that rendered t... continue
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Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World : Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
This book argues that Angola and Brazil were connected, not separated, by the Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural, religious, and social impacts of the slave trade on Angola. Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, he demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties, and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world. By adding to our knowledge of the slaving process, the book powerfully illustrates how Atlantic slaving transformed key African institutions, such as local regimes of forced labor that preda... continue
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The Violent Land by Jorge Amado EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia A Penguin Classic The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all—the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist—until it is too late—not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the ... continue
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Eleven Minutes : A Novel by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its ow... continue
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Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Years after a prank leaves the only Catholic boy in an elite Jewish school in Porto Alegre terribly injured, one of his classmates revisits that episode, trying to come to terms with his own story, and those of his father and grandfather.
268.
Olhos d'água by Conceição Evaristo PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Em Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abordando, sem meias palavras, a pobreza e a violência urbana que a acometem.
Sem sentimentalismos, mas sempre incorporando a tessitura poética à ficção, seus contos apresentam uma significativa galeria de mulheres: Ana Davenga, a mendiga Duzu-Querença, Natalina, Luamanda, Cida, a menina Zaíta. Ou serão todas a mesma mulher, captada e recriada no caleidoscópio da literatura em variados instant&ac... continue
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The Spy : A novel by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused o... continue