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Prison Diary, Argentina

Prison Diary, Argentina
  • Author(s): Simon Winchester
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

A British journalist recounts his experiences in an Argentinian jail during the Falklands War on suspicion of spying

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case
  • Author(s): Elsa Drucaroff, Slava Faybysh (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Political, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he...

Santa Evita

Santa Evita
  • Author(s): Tomás Martinez
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Tse-tung and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as...

School for Patriots

School for Patriots
  • Author(s): Martin Kohan
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set during the time of the Falklands War – a shocking exposure of the moral degradation that contaminated institutions of Argentinian society A school assistant in Buenos Aires’most prestigious state school, Maria Teresa Cornejo’s job is to keep the...

Seat 7a

Seat 7a
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Psychiatrist Mats Krüger knows that his irrational fear of flying is just that – irrational. He knows that flying is nineteen times safer than driving. He also knows that if something does happen on a plane, the worst place...

Show No Mercy

Show No Mercy
  • Author(s): Cindy Gerard
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leaving the CIA to take a job with Black Ops, Inc., a private security and intelligence firm specializing in jobs the military and CIA will not touch, Gabriel Jones becomes involved with American journalist Jenna McMillan when she accidentally...

Tender is the Flesh

Tender is the Flesh
  • Author(s): Augustina Bazterrica
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

‘This book will pull you in, take hold, and not let go until you reach the final page perhaps for longer than that. Without a doubt, my favourite read of this year’ Christina Dalcher, author of VOX ‘What a...

The Adventures of China Iron

The Adventures of China Iron
  • Author(s): Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through...

The Ambivalent Corpse

The Ambivalent Corpse
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): The present

In the first novel in the Roger and Suzanne mystery series, private detective Roger Bowman and his girlfriend scientist Suzanne Foster find themselves traveling through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina to solve a baffling and grotesque murder case. Parts...

The Case of Lisandra P.

The Case of Lisandra P.
  • Author(s): Helene Gremillon
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Buenos Aires, 1987. When a beautiful young woman named Lisandra is found dead at the foot of a six-story building, her husband, a psychoanalyst, is immediately arrested for her murder. Convinced of Vittorio’s innocence, one of his patients, Eva...

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