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- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Lima, Mendoza
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
In 1810, José de San Martín deserts the Spanish Army and returns home to Buenos Aires to lead a bloody revolt against his former masters. Struggling with an increasing dependence on opiates, San Martín forms a secret army of...
- Location(s): Peru, Wyoming
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’s been kidnapped. Too much time and too many secrets have come between Andres and Marabela, but now that she’s gone, he’ll do anything...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, has the occasional, fleeting assignation. . . . Until he meets Maria Fernandez, a...
Monkeys on the Road: One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
- Location(s): Central America, Mexico, Peru, South America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): contemporary
A family road trip adventure from California to Argentina, finishing up just a few months ago in mid-2021! “Monkeys on the Road is primarily a heart-warming family travel memoir full of nail-biting adventures, but also weaves in educational snippets...
- Location(s): Piura
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
John Segovia is many things – American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America. This history is what drew him to the city of Piura in the coastal desert of Peru, where every grain of sand...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th Century
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 Red April evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru’s history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance – a war...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted territory, particularly in the...
- Location(s): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Travelogue
In a pre-apocalyptic near future, against a backdrop of a faltering global civilization and a living planet in slow-motion death throes, a young, free-spirited couple, Joss and Tina, decide to quit the programme and go on a voyage of...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Under the rule of the unseen military dictator General Ordia, suspicion, paranoia and blackmail become realities of public and private life. Through the doors of the Cathedral, a bar and brothel in Lima, come the participants in this novel,...