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Winters in the South

Winters in the South
  • Author(s): Norbert Gstrein
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

As ethnic tensions escalate into war, Marija returns in confusion to her native Croatia – call it a mid-life crisis. She soon takes up with a young soldier, but her age does not give her the least power over...

Encore Valentine

Encore Valentine
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as Brava, Valentine. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine’s dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at...

The Stone Maidens

The Stone Maidens
  • Author(s): Ioulia Kolovou
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia could hope for was a position in the Big House, home of the immensely powerful and politically influential Goyena family. So, when Señorita Delia Lugghi...

77

77
  • Author(s): Guillermo Saccomanno
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez’s favorite students,...

A Maid of Kent

A Maid of Kent
  • Author(s): Jan Evans
  • Location(s): Argentina, The Falkland Islands, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Sophie, a successful interior designer, finds herself falling for Nick, a naval pilot, but is he too scarred by events he witnessed in the Falkland Islands? Is the sensitive and down to earth Greg, a friend since childhood, the...

A Perfect Cemetery

A Perfect Cemetery
  • Author(s): Federico Falco, Jennifer Croft (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of Córdoba, and adult lives fall apart quickly. In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope...

Adventures of China Iron

Adventures of China Iron
  • Author(s): Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A riotous romp taking the reader from the frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of China Iron, Martín Fierros abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a wagon with her...

All That Dies in April

All That Dies in April
  • Author(s): Mariana Travacio, Samantha Schnee (translator), Will Morningstar (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain...

All Yours

All Yours
  • Author(s): Claudia Pinero
  • Location(s): Salvador de Bahia, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Inés is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto’s briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words “All Yours”....

Along the Inca Road

Along the Inca Road
  • Author(s): Karin Muller
  • Location(s): Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

In its heyday, the Royal Inca Highway was an extraordinary feat of engineering. Meriting comparisons to the Great Wall of China, legend has it that the route was built not by men, but by the gods. An essential component...

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