Books from Uruguay
44 popular uruguayan books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Uruguay.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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La tregua / Truce by Mario Benedetti ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Una novela sobre la soledad y la incomunicación, el amor y la sexualidad, la muerte y los problemas políticos. Martín Santomé, viudo con tres hijos, en las vísperas de su jubilación comienza a registrar en un diario su vida gris y sin relieve. La vida cotidiana de la rutina en la oficina y la de un hogar desunido y crispado se verán alteradas cuando irrumpe en su rutina la joven Laura Avellaneda, su nueva empleada. Y este hombre, casi sin proponérselo, decide abrir en su vida un paréntesis luminoso. La tregua se ha traducido a decenas de idiomas y ha sido adaptad al cine, la televisión, el tea... continue
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La vida breve by Juan Carlos Onetti ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausens wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.
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Let the Wind Speak by Juan Carlos Onetti EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
New title from the author of A Brief Life and The Shipyard, recognised as the Grahm Greene of Uruguay
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Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posadas EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook? The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the hou... continue
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M' hijo el dotor by Florencio Sánchez ES
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Un drama teatral escrito y ubicado a principios del siglo XX. Un matrimonio de inmigrantes que llegan a una zona rural de Uruguay hace esfuerzos y sacrificios para que su hijo pueda estudiar y progresar, como parte del movimiento social ascendente que corona con el orgullo de tener un hijo médico o abogado (Doctor, a en el humilde lenguaje de los padres, "dotor"). En la obra se presenta la conclusión del objetivo, del logro de toda una vida, aunque tomará un giro inesperado. Una muy buena obra, y una muy buena metáfora de la transición generacional.
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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's mother and sister died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded more than 11,000 feet up in the wilderness of the Andes, the survivors soon heard that the search for them had been called off - and realise the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends ... In a last desperate bid for safety, Nando and a teammate set off in search of help. They climbed 17,000-foot-high mou... continue
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Mirrors : Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
The unofficial history of the world seen--and mirrored to us--through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten, over 5000 years of history.
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Older Brother by Daniel Mella EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
“This slim and vital novel is a tour de force; it will floor you, and lift you right the way up—I adored it.” —Claire-Louise Bennett , author of POND During the summer of 2014, on one of the stormiest days on record to hit the coast of Uruguay, 31-year old Alejandro, lifeguard and younger brother of our protagonist and narrator, dies after being struck by lightning. This marks the opening of a novel that combines memoir and fiction, unveiling an intimate exploration of the brotherly bond, while laying bare the effects that death can have on those closest to us and also on ourselves.It’s always... continue