Fiction - World Literature - South America (General)

The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years agoCocuáaacute;n, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip...

A young girl growing up in an Afro-descendant community of Ecuador in the 1990s confronts familial secrets and the ever-present specter of male violence, set against the vibrant background of Carnaval "In this wondrous novel, both life's potential for beauty and harshness sing together....

Doña Bárbara es una mujer bella... y de armas tomar. Ruda, caprichosa, decidida, violenta, corrupta, injusta. Con ella hay que andarse con cuidado. La personaje simboliza a una Venezuela de atraso que Rómulo Gallegos siempre criticó con la fineza de su pluma. De allí...

Doña Bárbara es una mujer bella... y de armas tomar. Ruda, caprichosa, decidida, violenta, corrupta, injusta. Con ella hay que andarse con cuidado. La personaje simboliza a una Venezuela de atraso que Rómulo Gallegos siempre criticó con la fineza de su pluma. De allí...

Nous mourrons tous... - et elle plonge sa main dans la poussière; la vieille Délira Délivrance dit nous mourrons tous les bêtes, les plantes, les chrétiens vivants, ô Jésus-Marie Sainte Vierge; et la poussière coule entre ses doigts. La même poussière que le vent...

In his final novel, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru. Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the...

"Mi nombre es Juan Planchard, tengo veintinueve años y cinco millones de dólares en mi cuenta. Tengo una casa en Caracas, una en Madrid y un apartamento en Nueva York. Soy dueño de una casa de apuestas en el Hotel Palms de Las Vegas....

An astonishing debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister--and who must learn what it means to fight for those she loves when all the odds are stacked against her. "I hesitate to call anything this...

An astonishing debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister--and who must learn what it means to fight for those she loves when all the odds are stacked against her. "I hesitate to call anything this...

"[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It's a stunner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] deeply felt meditation...

FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family saga."Gabriela Alemán has written a terrible and beautiful story...

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse.Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the refugee camps of the present...

The bestselling wild, fast-paced ride through sex, drugs, revolution, and the morally gray hustle of a man who dares to game the system that destroyed his country--it's The Wolf of Wall Street meets Scarface. "My name is Juan Planchard. I'm twenty-nine years old, and...

The bestselling wild, fast-paced ride through sex, drugs, revolution, and the morally gray hustle of a man who dares to game the system that destroyed his country--it's The Wolf of Wall Street meets Scarface. "My name is Juan Planchard. I'm twenty-nine years old, and...

An Argentine exile living in Madrid travels to recover her lost childhood in Buenos Aires. A young man in Poland makes the voyage to the Americas, only to end up in the wrong hemisphere. A newly wed bride leaves her husband to embark on...

"It's impossible to get a single answer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to trick ourselves."Andrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years--not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high...

A propulsive multigenerational family drama about three women struggling to hold one another together across borders as Chávez's Venezuela collapses around them--the extraordinary English-language debut of an award-winning and bestselling author "A searing portrait of Venezuela's migrant crisis and the ferocity of a mother's...

The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing--at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific--casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be...