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BECOMING MALKA

BECOMING MALKA
  • Author(s): Mirta Ines Trupp
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Argentina, Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s, Time-Travel

In pursuit of her Master’s degree in Imperial Russian History, 24 year-old Molly Abramovitz is heading to Moscow for a week long seminar. Never one to miss an opportunity for genealogical research; methodical and meticulous Molly plans a side...

Borges and the Eternal Orangutans

Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
  • Author(s): Luís Fernando Verissimo
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story....

Buenos Aires Triad

Buenos Aires Triad
  • Author(s): F E Beyer
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): 2020

A fast-paced noir featuring the Venezuelan and Chinese gangs of Argentina’s capital… When an armed robber shoots a British tourist in Buenos Aires, Lucas’s life changed forever. A humble watch-seller moonlighting for the gang behind the robbery, Lucas picked...

Cartwheel

Cartwheel
  • Author(s): Jennifer DuBois
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold...

Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
  • Author(s): Patrick Symmes
  • Location(s): Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1952 and early 1990's

In 1952 Ernesto Guevara and a friend took a motorcycle journey across the back roads of South America. During that journey Ernesto transformed into Che Guevara. About 40 years later Patrick Symmes followed the same route, for the most...

Furia

Furia
  • Author(s): Yamile Saied Mendez
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Reese’s Book Club YA Pick. A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the...

Goodbye Buenos Aires

Goodbye Buenos Aires
  • Author(s): Andrew Graham-Yooll
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

Goodbye Buenos Aires” is a vivid and earthly celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the ’20s and ’30s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives – a hard-drinking,...

Hopscotch

Hopscotch
  • Author(s): Julio Cortázar
  • Location(s): Paris, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the...

Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me

Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me
  • Author(s): Catherine Kapphahn
  • Location(s): Croatia, Argentina, Colorado, Italy, Slovenia, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, 2000.

Winner of The Center for Fiction’s Christopher Doheny Award American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother’s early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As...

Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires

Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires
  • Author(s): Cherie Magnus
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2003-2014

A story so sensual, so unconventional, and so shocking…it could only be true. After a series of life-changing and terrible losses, Cherie moves to steamy Buenos Aires, where the romantic attention of the local men reignites her youth and...

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