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What The River Knows

What The River Knows
  • Author(s): Isabel Ibañez
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...

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...

7 Ways to Kill a Cat

7 Ways to Kill a Cat
  • Author(s): Matías Néspolo
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2001

Set in a shanty-town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this fine first novel focuses on Gringo and Chueco, both 20, who live in an eternal present of hustling for food, sex, alcohol and drugs. Neither future nor past...

A Crack in the Wall

A Crack in the Wall
  • Author(s): Claudia Pinero
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Pablo Sim’s life is a mess. His career as an architect is at a dead-end: reduced to designing soulless office buildings desecrating the heart of Buenos Aires. His marriage seems to be one endless argument with his wife over...

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...

Death Flight

Death Flight
  • Author(s): Sarah Sultoon
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s/90s

Argentina. 1998. Human remains are found on a beach on the outskirts of Buenos Aires – a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of mutilated bodies thrown from planes during Argentina’s Dirty War. Flights of death,...

Elena Knows

Elena Knows
  • Author(s): Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across...

Open Door

Open Door
  • Author(s): Iosi Havilio
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living...

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club
  • Author(s): Jessica Morrison
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

28-year-old Cassie Moore has always played it safe, living life according to a meticulously organized Master Plan. But when she loses her Perfect Job and finds her fiancé in bed with his ex on the same day, it’s clear...

The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

The Forget-Me-Not Sonata
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Hurlingham Club in Buenos Aires is a little piece of England. Here Audrey Garnet grows up and loses her heart to Louis Forrester, a talented, troubled young man who sets tongues wagging with his eccentric behaviour and chequered...

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