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The Spanish Daughter

The Spanish Daughter
  • Author(s): Soraya Lane
  • Location(s): Argentina, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century / contemporary

Argentina, 1939: “My darling Valentina, I beg you to not go through with this marriage. I know your duty to your family means the world to you, but I pray our love means more. Let us run away together,...

The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great...

The Things We Said in Venice

The Things We Said in Venice
  • Author(s): Kristin Anderson
  • Location(s): Europe, Argentina
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Solid and dependable, high school counselor Sarah Turner knows all about helping others get their lives on track. But when her own life spirals drastically off course due to a fast-track divorce, she surprises everyone. She leaves her job...

The Tunnel

The Tunnel
  • Author(s): Ernesto Sabato
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by writers such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene. Infamous for...

Three Musketeers

Three Musketeers
  • Author(s): Marcelo Birmajer
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after twenty years of absence to mourn his two friends- two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised “”the three musketeers.”” These young men signed...

Thursday Night Widows

Thursday Night Widows
  • Author(s): Claudia Pinero
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three bodies lie at the bottom of a pool in a gated community near Buenos Aires. It’s Thursday night and, oblivious to their presence, Mrs Scaglia is strolling through the pool area gathering wine glasses left from her husband’s...

Twin Truths

Twin Truths
  • Author(s): Shelan Rodger
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

What is the truth? And how do you recognise it when you hear it? Jenny and Pippa are twins. Like many twins they often know what the other is thinking. They complete each other. When Pippa disappears Jenny is...

What the Nights Tells the Day

What the Nights Tells the Day
  • Author(s): Hector Bianciotti
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English,...

With Love, The Argentina Family

With Love, The Argentina Family
  • Author(s): Mirta Ines Trupp
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

With Love, The Argentina Family ~ Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes is a unique account, enlightening and inspirational with its autobiographical genuineness. The story unfolds in “die goldene medina” -America-sharing the insecurities and confusion of a...

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