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SOUTH AMERICA home of the Amazon rainforest, the world's most biodiverse place, containing 40% of the world's plant and animal species
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by Claire Adam
13-year-old twin brothers - Peter, the brilliant son with a golden future, and Paul, the family's sorrow - are simultaneously lifted and doomed by the aspirations of their parents, relatives, and teachers.
Setting: Trinidad
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by Jorge Amado
Dona Flor loses her unlucky gambler husband and remarries a sweet guy. She can't quite get hubby Number 1 out of her head, however. Then he suddenly reappears, looking to take up where he left off - especially in the bedroom.
Setting: Brazil
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by Roberto Ampuero
Meeting a dying Pablo Neruda at a party in the 1970's, rogue Cayetano Brulé is recruited to help Neruda solve a last great mystery in the poet's life.
Setting: Chile
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by Marie Arana
Can cellophane become an aphrodisiac and a catalyst for disaster? Only in a world as profusely and purposefully imagined as Floralinda, a paper factory deep in the cellulose-rich Amazon rain forest.
Setting: Peru
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by Rahul Bhattacharya
Quitting his job to relocate to colonial Guyana, a former cricket journalist immerses himself in the region's decaying wooden houses, coastal sugarcane plantations and diamond-hunter-scavenged rain forest.
Setting: Guyana
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by Ingrid Betancourt
Julia, who has inherited the gift of foretelling the future from her grandmother, grows up in an increasingly oppressive Buenos Aires as her country witnesses the second coming of former general and soon-to-be dictator Juan Peron.
Setting: Argentina
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by Fred D'Aguiar
They've surrendered their birth certificates, their worldly possessions and their free wills to follow a charismatic leader to an exotic location in the midst of a jungle. But their 3,000 acre commune is far from the utopia some devotees envisioned.
Setting: Guyana
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by Mariana Enriquez
These wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. Setting: Argentina
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by Daniel Galera
Before taking his own life, a father reveals to his son what he knows about his grandfather's death -- the story of a vigilante killing in a small ocean town -- with more question marks than certainties. Soon after, the young man moves to the town, where he teaches swimming lessons and follows his dream of living on the beach.
Setting: Brazil
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by Roque Larraquy
In 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object.
Setting: Buenos Aires
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by Raphael Montes
When he kidnaps Clarice, with whom he is obsessed, twisted young medical student Teo Avelar vows to prove to her, as they embark on a dangerous odyssey, that they are made for each other — and will stop at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together.
Setting: Brazil
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by Idra Novey
Deep in gambling debt, celebrated writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes.
Setting: Brazil
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by Pola Oloixarac
This wild anthropological ride blends political satire, psychedelic sexuality, and cyberpunk themes through three intertwining stories of the history of three separate eras of Argentina and surrounding areas,
Setting: Argentina
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by Alan Pauls
Against the backdrop of the tumultuous '70s and '80s in Argentina, Pauls tells the story of his protagonist's life and his country's history, through one potent lens: money, gained and lost.
Setting: Argentia
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by Frances de Pontes Peebles
An orphaned kitchen maid and the reckless daughter of a sugar baron embark on a volatile friendship marked by their ambitions to escape, their changing fortunes and unexpected fame.
Setting: Brazil
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by Melissa Rivero
With no intention of jeopardizing her marriage, Ana does just that while trying to start a new life with her family in New York City. Eager to leave behind Peru, with its prejudices and lack of opportunity, she gets a job as a seamstress in a factory while husband Lucho drives a cab.
Setting: Peru (and NYC)
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by Hernán Ronsino
In a derelict town, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't commit; a policeman with ties to the military regime discovers his wife's infidelity; a third lays dying. And an American missionary has been killed.
Setting: Argentina
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by Fernanda Torres
Five friends shared women, drugs, and alcohol, drifting sometimes together, sometimes apart during a hedonistic frenzy of parties and sexual exploits. Now facing the ravages of old age, each looks back to consider the years of failed relationships, frustrated careers, and the twists and turns of their camaraderie.
Setting: Brazil
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by Lily Tuck
In 1854, when a beautiful young divorcee named Ella Lynch catches the eye of dictator-in-training Franco Lopez, she leaves Paris and her live-in lover to move with him to Paraguay.
Setting: Paraquay
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by Alejandro Zambra
Readers will find it hard to believe that an author can describe two lives, the philosophy of writing, and a true picture of a historical time, all in 139 pages, but poet and novelist Zambra accomplishes this with seeming ease and grace.
Setting: Chile
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