by Julio Cortázar | Argentina
When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires.
by Martin Kohan | Argentina
A novel built around the controversial 1923 world title fight between American champion Jack Dempsey and Argentine challenger Luis Angel Firpo.
by Juan de Recacoechea | Bolivia
Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami.
by James Scudamore | Brazil
Raised in the affluent communities of Säao Paulo, Ludo works to promote a supermarket chain that targets the city's poorest residents, and must navigate through his uncomfortable place in the city's class divide.
by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro | Brazil
A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.
by Roberto Bolano | Chile
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.
by Evelio Rosero | Columbia
An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town.
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Columbia
The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
by Jorge Icaza | Ecuador
Story of the ruthless exploitation and extermination of an Indian village of Ecuador by its greedy landlord.
by Oonya Kempadoo | Guyana
A girl's sexual awakening in Guyana, portrayed against the background of political turmoil between blacks and Indians. The heroine is Lula and she narrates her sexual escapades with pornographic frankness.
by Augusto Roa Bastos | Paraguay
Reveals the story, in a foreign street, of an old cause not redeemed. A random encounter that makes fate emerge showing the other side of the facts.
by Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru
Evocatively intermingling past and present, the corporeal and the spiritual, "Death in the Andes" offers a fascinating panoramic view of contemporary Peru, telling the story of the disappearance of three men from a remote Andean village and the soldiers called in to investigate.
by Cynthia McLeod | Suriname
A frank exposé of life in a Dutch colony when sugar was king and demanded the consummate allegiance of all—colonists and slaves—regardless of the tragic consequence.
by Juan Carlos Onetti | Uruguay
In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen is offered the job of general manager of Jeremias Petrus Ltd., and given the task of restoring the bankrupt shipyard.
by Teresa de la Parra | Venezuela
The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girl brought up in France and forced to return to Venezuela when her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolen by an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage.
by Alberto Barrera Tyszka | Venezuela
Ernesto Duran is convinced that he is sick. Ever since he separated from his wife he has been presenting symptoms of an illness which he believes is killing him. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr. Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him.