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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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"No One Writes to the Colonel" is a portrait of old age, that period when physical decay conflicts with still-alert mental pride. Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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In The Beginning Was The Sea by Tomás González EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The young intellectuals J. and Elena leave behind their comfortable lives, the parties and the money in Medellin to settle down on a remote island. Their plan is to lead the good life, self-sufficient and close to nature. But from the very start, each day brings small defeats and imperceptible dramas, which gradually turn paradise into hell, as their surroundings inexorably claim back every inch of the 'civilisation' they brought with them. Based on a true story, 'In the Beginning Was the Sea' is a dramatic and searingly ironic account of the disastrous encounter of intellectual struggle with ... continue
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Doce cuentos peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
These stories are all about Latin Americans living in Europe; a view of various immigrant lives.
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Song of the Flies : An Account of the Events by Maria Mercedes Carranza EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Canto de las Moscas (Song of the Flies), by the late Colombian poet María Mercedes Carranza, was published for the first time in 1997, following a decade marked by extremely high levels of violence in Colombia. At this point the country had already endured nearly half a century of armed struggle between government and rebel groups, and had more recently experienced the emergence of paramilitary forces and warring drug lords. Carranza wrote these twenty-four poems, each bearing the name of a town or city that had been the site of large-scale violence, as a sort of chronicle and commemoration of... continue
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.
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The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Gabriel Santoro becomes estranged from his father when the latter devastatingly, and publicly, criticises his son's book about the flight of Jewish immigrants from Nazi Germany to Bogota in the 1930s. The conflict between father and son, their subsequent reconciliation and the mysterious death of the father lead the reader into an examination of the betrayal, guilt and obsession at the heart of Colombian society in World War II, when blacklists of German immigrants were circulated, effectively destroying countless lives. Half a century later, this moral dilemma re-emerges with a vengeance, in ... continue
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Chronik eines angekündigten Todes by Gabriel García Márquez DE
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Ein Dorf an der kolumbianischen Karibikküste feiert ein rauschendes Hochzeitsfest. Doch noch in der Hochzeitsnacht wird die Braut in ihr Elternhaus zurückgebracht: sie war nicht unberührt. Der mutmassliche Täter muss sterben... (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).
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Povestea târfelor mele triste by Gabriel García Márquez RO
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
In anul in care am implinit nouazeci de ani, am vrut sa-mi daruiesc o noapte de dragoste nebuna cu o adolescenta fecioara.” Aceasta e fraza cu care debuteaza romanul lui Garcia-Marquez. Un ziarist batrin decide sa-si sarbatoreasca a 90-a aniversare in stil mare, oferindu-si un cadou care il va face sa simta ca traieste: o adolescenta virgina. Intr-un bordel dintr-un oras pictural, o vede pe copila din spate, complet dezbracata, si viata sa se schimba radical. Acum, ca o cunoaste, simte ca ar putea muri, nu de batrinete, ci de dragoste.
„Povestea tirfelor mele triste” e pov... continue
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The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account . . .of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón . . .