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 

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.

 

 

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. 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

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,

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. 

 

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. 

 

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.

 

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.