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South America includes twelve countries: (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Trinidad and Tobago, and Panama may also be considered part of South America. Authors include some of the most notable of recent years, including Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Isabel Allende. Some online resources to help you find authors and titles: Books about South America for travelers include mostly Armchair Travel with a few fiction titles Keep reading for some suggestions! |
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Little Indiscretions
by Carmen Posadas
When celebrity pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the summer mansion of wealthy art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime, especially when it turns out that Nestor had a talent for unearthing dark secrets and was threatening to reveal some of them. Winner of the 1998 Planeta Prize.
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Love in the time of cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
by Pablo Neruda
A single-volume collection of works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet features translations of almost six hundred key pieces and features specially commissioned new translations.
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The alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
A fable about undauntingly following one's dream, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens, features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being
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Lost City Radio : a novel
by Daniel Alarcón
Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, top-rated radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long-missing husband. By the author of War by Candlelight.
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Ines of My Soul
by Isabel Allende
From an internationally best-selling author, a captivating novel chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman, Inés Suárez, who journeyed to the New World in search of her husband and, as the companion of Pedro de Valdivia, helped to found the nation of Chile.
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