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South America This year we are reading around the world for our reading challenge. I'll give you a list of suggestions that fit the region listed. This weeks region is South America. It's made up of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao, Grenada, Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis, and Anguilla.
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The shape of the ruins :
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
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Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home
by Nando Parrado
A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days--popularized in the best-selling Alive--provides his own chilling account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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It would be night in Caracas : a novel
by Karina Sainz Borgo
A woman tests the limits of what she is willing to do to secure her future in turbulent modern Venezuela overrun by violent revolutionaries. A first novel by the author of Caracas Hip-Hop. 30,000 first printing.
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The air you breathe
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. By the award-winning author of The Seamstress
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Affections
by Rodrigo Hasbún
A book inspired by actual events follows a former cameraman for Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl who flees to Bolivia with his family to try and start over and becomes involved in an expedition to find the fabled lost Incan city of Paititi.
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