Latin American Fiction

Cupid only strikes once. At least that’s what Lissette Alonso believes. Ever since the Most Disastrous Valentine’s Day of All Time™ she has hated all things V-day. But Lizzie’s best friend is having pre-nuptial festivities for a week leading up to her February 14th wedding and Lissette is taking her maid of honor duties seriously, maybe too seriously. Of course of course of course who is the first person she runs into on the way to the wedding? None other than her childhood nemesis, Brian Anderson, the reason for all of her Valentine’s Day hatred.

At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment.

Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana is magnetized. They offer excitement, and perhaps an escape. When one of them dies, Viridiana lies to protect her friends. Soon enough, someone’s asking questions....

When Ollie Sweet is very publicly dumped by ‘The One’, his seemingly perfect world dissolves into misery, self-pity, and a bizarre rooftop meeting with a suicidal man in flip-flops. While most would seek out the support of loved ones at such a torrid time, natural-born journalist Ollie asks the subscribers of his website: how did they get over their failed relationships? When Ollie follows some of their more extreme advice, chaos inevitably ensues.

This magical realist short tale was inspired by the Latin American myth of El Sombrerón, the nighttime guardian of peace and justice. El Sombrerón arrives in a sleepy town to find that a young girl has stolen a golden necklace. El Sombrerón must convince the girl to return the necklace so she can avoid El Sombrerón’s justice…and before the sun rises.

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than 2,000 miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

Después de derrotar al ejército cristiano, las tropas almohades se abren paso a sangre y fuego arrasando todo lo que encuentran en su camino. Diego de Malagón, el humilde hijo de un posadero, es testigo horrorizado del asesinato de su padre y del secuestro de sus hermanas. A duras penas consigue huir a lomos de su inseparable yegua Sabba y alcanzar la ciudad de Toledo donde conoce a Galib, un veterinario mudéjar.

In the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic. Against this backdrop, The City of Palaces opens in a Mexico City jail with the meeting of Miguel Sarmiento and Alicia Gavilán.

Totalmente revista e atualizada pelo autor–professor titular de Literatura Brasileira na USP–essa obra consagrada aos estudantes universitários, professores e pós-graduados, é tida como a melhor do gênero. Está divida em oito partes: Condição Colonial, Barroco, Arcádia e Ilustração, Romantismo, Realismo, Pré-Modernismo, Modernismo e Tendências Contemporâneas e História da Literatura Brasileira.

Viven en Madrid, en la actualidad. Ella es arquitecta, tiene miedo a hacer proyectos de futuro y busca algo que no puede definir. Él escribe ensayos, lleva cuatro años a su lado y nunca pensó en verse soltero de nuevo, en un «mercado» sentimental del que lo desconoce todo. Por las grietas de su derrumbe como pareja entran las amistades, sus consejos y sus vidas, la mayoría de las veces con más dudas que certezas. Es la generación Tinder, la de unas personas que eliminan a otras con un dedo; una generación en la que todos están expuestos y a la postre desencantados.

Solitária conta a história de duas mulheres negras, Mabel e Eunice, mãe e filha, que moram no trabalho, um condomínio de luxo desses encontrados em qualquer grande cidade brasileira. Eunice, a mãe, é testemunha-chave de um crime chocante ocorrido na casa dos patrões. Mabel, a filha, constrói o caminho que leva não apenas à elucidação deste crime, mas a uma mudança radical na vida das pessoas que cercam as protagonistas.

In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations.

Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother’s handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda que siempre te quise. (“Forgive me if I failed you. Remember that I always loved you.”) But what would Paula need forgiveness for?

When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose enslaved Africans he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier’s magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World.

In the 1880's, an American senator observes, with some perplexity, English country life and all of its social echelons. To add some spice along the way, we follow the romances and intrigues of the flirtatious Arabella Trefoil.

After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-White, one-percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from her uncle himself. Being raised by a drug addict is no picnic, and Raqi must quickly learn how to survive. She manages to form a few friendships. Still, as soon as she can, she leaves the violence and bigotry behind and doesn’t look back.

Ciudad Augusta: Uma distopia latino-americana é uma ficção que tem como pano de fundo um evento real: o movimento ¡Evade!, contra a desigualdade social, que sacudiu o Chile no final de 2019 e início de 2020. Um milhão de pessoas foram às ruas. Os protestos se estenderam por meses. Acuado, o governo pactuou reformas. Aceitou mudar a Constituição do país, herança da ditadura militar do general Augusto Pinochet. Como saldo, uma tragédia histórica: mais de 200 manifestantes perderam a visão, alvejados por tiros de balas de borracha disparados pela polícia durante os protestos.

La ficción histórica es un género literario en el que la trama se desenvuelve en un entorno ubicado en el pasado, así que volvamos a una época en la que terminó Californio e inició California. Escucha historias perdidas de vaqueros desesperados que tuvieron que huir para poder sobrevivir. Esta novela se basa en historias reales de amor y tragedia, hermandad y familia. Estos hombres fueron tildados de bandidos y criminales por el nuevo gobierno bajo el cual repentinamente tuvieron que vivir.

La máscara, el maquillaje que reformula las identidades: José Donoso ha buscado siempre en sus relatos, obsesivamente, ese otro rostro posible de los seres y las cosas. El lugar sin límites (novela que llevó al cine el mexicano Arturo Ripstein) juega eficazmente con el engañoso espejo de los sexos en un prostíbulo de pueblo, especie de infierno anodino donde confluyen no sólo las pasiones eróticas, sino además los sórdidos juegos de poder y dominación que suelen marcar los territorios degradados.

Santa Evita no es sólo una de las grandes novelas argentinas, sino el relato del episodio más inconcebible y macabro de la vida política nacional. Con las herramientas de la investigación periodística y la prosa de la ficción, Tomás Eloy Martínez persigue y cuenta a través de una galería de personajes extraordinarios el desquiciado calvario del cuerpo embalsamado de Eva Perón, al tiempo que revive los matices más desconocidos de la mujer que signó -incluso desde la muerte - el destino de un país.