Here’s my list of potential reads from South and Central America for the 2013 Global Reading Challenge. I’ve compiled these from several websites, particularly Teaching College- Level Spanish and several library lists of international fiction.
I’ve included links to my reviews below as well.
Argentina
- Claudia Piñeiro: Thursday Night Widows
- Guillermo Martínez: The Oxford Murders, The Book of Murder
- Ricardo Piglia: Money to Burn (Plata Quemada)- very dark, based on a true story about a bank heist.
- Juan José Saer: The Witness; The Investigation
- Mempo Giardinelli: Tenth Circle, Sultry Moon
- Juan Martini: El cerco, Puerto Apache– not translated
- José Pablo Feinmann: Últimos días de la víctima- not translated
- Juan Sasturain: not translated
- Ernesto Mallo: Needle in a Haystack, Sweet Money
- Guillermo Orsi: No One Loves a Policeman, Holy City
- Carlos Gamerro: El secreto y las voces
- Matías Néspolo: Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
- Eduardo Sacheri: The Secret in Their Eyes
- Tomás Eloy Martínez: Purgatory
- Elsa Osorio: My Name Is Light
Mexico
- Paco Ignacio Taibo II: An Easy Thing; No Happy Ending; Shadow of Shadow– historical novel, takes place in Mexico City after the Mexican Revolution
- Rolo Diez: Luna de Escarlata, Papel picado
- Juan Hernández Luna: Las mentiras de la luz; Quiza otros labios; Tabaco para el puma
- Martin Solares
Cuba
- Leonardo Padura- Havana Blue– I wasn’t a fan of the gender problems in this first outing in the Havana Quartet (Las cuatro estaciones).
- Mayra Montero: Dancing to Almendra
- José Latour: Hidden in Havana
Colombia
- Santiago Gamboa: Necropolis
Brazil
- Rubem Fonseca
- Patricia Melo
- Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza- The Silence of the Rain (first book in Inspector Espinosa series)
- Leighton Gage
Chile
- Ramón Díaz Eterovic
- Roberto Ampuero: The Neruda Case (Cayetano Brulé series)
Guatemala
- Mark Brazaitas: Steal My Heart
Bolivia
- Juan de Recacoechea: American Visa
Peru
- Alonso Cueto: Blue Hour
- Santiago Roncagliolo: Red April
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