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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...

Not A River

Not A River
  • Author(s): Annie McDermott (Translator), Selva Almada
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and...

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...

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...

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...

There Are No Happy Loves

There Are No Happy Loves
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin, Miranda France (translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...

New Brighton

New Brighton
  • Author(s): Helen Trevorrow
  • Location(s): Brighton, Antarctica, Argentina, New York City (NYC), Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

During a vicious storm, a battered ship runs aground on Brighton beach. While the city on the sea comes to a ghostly standstill, the unusual event triggers an epic journey for young waitress, Robyn Lockhart. First, Robyn needs to...

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...

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...

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...

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