Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (779)
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Un vaso de cólera by Raduan Nassar ES
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Un vaso de cólera narra dos días en la vida de una pareja que se encuentra sumida en un estado de crisis. Los violentos exabruptos –sofocados por intensos momentos de pasión y de rapto amoroso– son detonados por el encontronazo de dos personalidades fuertes y dominantes. Él trata de subyugar a su pareja, someterla a través de una continua violencia verbal que busca enterrar la llaga justo en las hendiduras de las heridas más profundas de ella; atraerla a partir de la vulnerabilidad; erigir un templo en el que él se convierta en el ce... continue
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This Is Our Place by Vitor Martins EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Three teens -- in three different decades -- navigate life, love, and family in Vitor Martins's heartfelt new novel that spans generations. Perfect for fans of Tales from the City and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. If the walls of Number 8 Sunflower Street could talk ... As Ana celebrates the new millennium, she is shocked to learn that she must leave behind her childhood home, her hometown, and -- hardest of all -- her girlfriend for a new life in Rio de Janeiro. Ten years later, Greg is sent to live with his aunt -- who runs a video rental store from her garage and owns a dog named Keanu... continue
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Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Explores the life of Pedro Archanjo, a mulatto man who spent his life fighting prejudice.
365.
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir Series delves for the first time into South America.
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Suite Tokio by Giovana Sznelwar Madalosso ES
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Fernanda es una productora de cine que ya no siente gran conexión emocional con Cora, su hija de cuatro años. Mantiene económicamente a su marido, del que cada vez se está más lejos, y comienza a engañarlo con una documentalista extravagante. Maju, la niñera, que vive en el cuarto de servicio —bautizado Suite Tokio—, es quien ejerce la maternidad cotidiana de Cora. Para evitar que la separen de esa niña que es casi suya, Maju decide raptarla y llevársela a vivir al campo, mientras Fernanda va desenredando el quiebre de su maternidad. Suite Tokio es una novela sobre la maternidad y la clase; so... continue
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Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Adoption, exile and family are the focus of this exploration of what it means to belong.
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Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what's waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single day – the day before today – the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man. All the while, the tolling of the bell in the city square pushes their whirlwind adventure towards its fateful conclusion... A brilliant and bizarre work from an overlooked great of 20th ... continue
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Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” “A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times “Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books “Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Ti... continue