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The Best Enemy

The Best Enemy
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin, Miranda France (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

4 (Veronica Rosenthal Mysteries) A former editor of Nuestro Tiempo magazine has been murdered, apparently during the course of a burglary gone wrong, but investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal has her doubts. She becomes increasingly convinced that her old boss’s...

The Buenos Aires Quintet

The Buenos Aires Quintet
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Pepe Carvalho’s uncle asks him to find his son, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is the tango and Maradona, and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family...

The Gods of Tango

The Gods of Tango
  • Author(s): Carolina de Robertis
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1913

Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to...

The Invisible Mountain

The Invisible Mountain
  • Author(s): Carolina de Robertis
  • Location(s): Argentina, Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women...

The Penguin Lessons

The Penguin Lessons
  • Author(s): Tom Michell
  • Location(s): Argentina, South America
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school, and endless summer holidays. He even has a motorbike, Che...

The Swallow and the Hummingbird

The Swallow and the Hummingbird
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Argentina, Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her as they had planned. But the boy who joined the RAF has returned a man, and a...

The Tango Singer

The Tango Singer
  • Author(s): Tómas Eloy Martinez
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

American student Bruno is on his research trip to Buenos Aires and he becomes steadily obsessed with tracking down an elusive and enigmatic tango singer, whose voice has never been recorded, yet apparently transcends the beauty of the tango...

The Whispering Land

The Whispering Land
  • Author(s): Gerald Durrell
  • Location(s): Argentina, Patagonia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there’s one thing that’s better than a small zoo – a bigger one! So Durrell heads off to South America...

There Are No Happy Loves

There Are No Happy Loves
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin, Miranda France (translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...

Twelve Minutes of Love

Twelve Minutes of Love
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she’s danced across the world, from...

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