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A Storm hits Valparaiso

A Storm hits Valparaiso
  • Author(s): David Gaughran
  • 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...

American Chica

American Chica
  • Author(s): Marie Arana
  • 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...

Chasing the Sun

Chasing the Sun
  • Author(s): Natalia Sylvester
  • 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...

Lima Nights

Lima Nights
  • Author(s): Marie Arana
  • 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

Monkeys on the Road: One family’s vanlife adventure south in search of a simpler life
  • Author(s): Mary Hollendoner
  • 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...

Pacazo

Pacazo
  • Author(s): Roy Kesey
  • 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...

Red April

Red April
  • Author(s): Santiago Roncagliolo
  • 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...

The White Rock

The White Rock
  • Author(s): Hugh Thomson
  • 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...

Wondering, the Way is Made

Wondering, the Way is Made
  • Author(s): Luke F D Marsden
  • 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...

Conversation in the Cathedral

Conversation in the Cathedral
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • 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,...

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