Read Around South America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in South America.
Best books from South America (781)
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Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
"La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga al tiempo que narra, un crimen atroz y lejano, un crimen que solo se desvelara en las ultimas paginas de la novela."
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La literatura nazi en América by Roberto Bolaño ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Este libro es una ingeniosísima obra de ficción, compuesta de reseñas dedicadas a la vida y la obra de autores inexistentes de una literatura inexistente. Con la publicación en 1996 de este diccionario de autores infames, Bolaño llamó por primera vez la a
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Este Domingo by Jose Donoso ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Este material que precedió a “El obsceno pájaro de la noche” (obra que apareció por primera vez en España y no tardó en ser considerada como uno de los trabajos más sobresalientes del autor) permite desde su contenido recrear el ambiente de una costumbre que muchas familias aún mantienen en diversas partes del mundo: la de reunirse todos los domingos a almorzar.
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The Murmuration by Carlos Labbe EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Within the world of Labbé's fiction, The Murmuration can be understood as a continuation and broadening, a shift toward a more explicit expression of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterize all of his fiction. Popular forms and genres (from science fiction and journalism in Navidad & Matanza to detective fiction in Loquela to pop music and protest movements in Spiritual Choreographies) have always been integral to Labbé's novels, and with The Murmuration he makes his most direct appeal to the masse... continue
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Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her works are among the finest in all contemporary poetry. She is loved and honored throughout the world as one of the great humanistic voices of our time.
This bilingual edition of selected poems was translated and edited by Doris Dana, a close personal friend with whom Gabriela lived and worked with prior to her death in 1957. These translations give a profound insight into the original poetry of this greatest of contemporary Latin American women. They were selected from her four major works ... continue
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El desierto by Carlos Franz ES
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Laura returns to the town of Pampa Hundida, a small Chilean town in the desert of Atacama, after twenty years of absence, where individuals and society must come to terms with each other and certain traditional rites confront the pragmatic considerations of European reason.
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Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
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