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- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Lima, Mendoza
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
In 1810, José de San Martín deserts the Spanish Army and returns home to Buenos Aires to lead a bloody revolt against his former masters. Struggling with an increasing dependence on opiates, San Martín forms a secret army of...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Andres suspects his wife has left him—again. Then he learns that the unthinkable has happened: she’s been kidnapped. Too much time and too many secrets have come between Andres and Marabela, but now that she’s gone, he’ll do anything...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, has the occasional, fleeting assignation. . . . Until he meets Maria Fernandez, a...
- Location(s): Brussels, Dinard, Guyana, Lima, Paris, Recife, St Malo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): 1902
1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima’s high society become...
- Location(s): Lima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author’s native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned. The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group...