Alvar Nunez Cabeza De… About Best Sellers in Central America HistoryHere you can discover the best Central America History in Amazon Best Sellers, and find the top 100 most popular Amazon Central America History.The 10 best Latin American books of all time The best novels by Latin American authors or set in Latin America from One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Alchemist The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa (1963) The debut novel of the experimental writer sometimes described as “the national conscience of Peru”, this story of teenage boys at a military academy has shades of Lord of the Flies. The outraged academy authorities burned 1,000 copies on publication. Hopscotch Julio Cortázar (1963) Pablo Neruda said that those who do not read this great Argentinean author are suffering from “a serious invisible disease”. This ludic, meandering and multiple-ended “counter-novel” is about lovers who refuse to make arrangements. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez (1967) Dreamily exploring Colombian myths and history through the magical, multigenerational story of the Buendía family by the late Gabriel García Márquez.
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, William Kennedy declared that the novel should be required reading for the human race. Print out the family tree before you start or you’ll get lost. The Power and the Glory Graham Greene (1940) In Greene’s masterpiece, a nameless Roman Catholic whiskey priest goes on the run in 1930s Mexico during the Red Shirts’ persecution of the clergy. As he exchanges sacred rites for sanctuary, the vultures look down on him with “shabby indifference”. The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto Che Guevara (published 1993) Leaving Argentina for a lark on a sputtering motorbike, the young Marxist revolutionary returns as a man with a mission. He becomes, in his daughter’s words: “increasingly sensitive to the complex indigenous world of Latin America”. The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz (1950) “Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition,” writes the Mexican poet in this celebrated collection of essays. “Man is nostalgia and a search for communion.
Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.” The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende (1982) Beginning life as a letter to her dying, 100-year-old grandfather, the Peruvian-born novelist’s debut is a history of Chile told as a family saga through the female line. “At five,” she has said, “I was already a feminist but nobody used the word in Chile yet.” The Alchemist Paulo Coelho (1988) Holding the Guinness World Record for the most translated book by a living author, this Brazilian-born author’s allegorical novel follows a youthful Andalusian shepherd’s journey to Egypt. When you want something badly enough, he is told, then you can make it happen. The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño (1998) Born in Santiago in 1953 – “the year that Stalin and Dylan Thomas died,” he wrote – dyslexic Bolaño lived a fractured, wanderer’s life, which may have fed into his playful, non-linear fiction. The poet-hero of his masterpiece is called Ulises.
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel (1989) “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves,” writes Esquivel in this sumptuous, magical realist Mexican melodrama. The heroine Tita's emotions spill into the delicious food she prepares. THE CONTENDERS The President Miguel Ángel Asturias (1946) Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo (1955) The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes (1962) Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges (1962) I, the Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos (1974) IN PICTURES: THE 30 BEST OPENING LINES IN BOOKS Boris Johnson: a week with London's maverick Mayor Top ten most famous books we never finish The 100 novels everyone should read The 85 best books of 2014 The world's 16 most spectacular libraries Tom Hanks: the iconic roles Tom Hanks's varied career includes playing detectives, gay lawyers, castaways, cartoon cowboys and gangsters. A survey of the artist's mass-nudity photographs around the world, as he
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Best quotes about Europe and Europeans Europe has been a place of battles and political intrigue for centuries. approach a vote on the UK's membership of the European Union, we look at what 50 writers, actors, historians, artists and comedians have said about Europe and its nations.Good books to read before wandering about Central and South America November 11, 2005 Subscribe Good books to read before wandering about Central and South America for a few months? About Best Sellers in Central American Travel GuidesHere you can discover the best Central American Travel Guides in Amazon Best Sellers, and find the top 100 most popular Amazon Central American Travel Guides. A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America Read on any device Where to buy > A History of Violence Beautiful ForeversRandom FamilyChronicle of a Death Foretold A special Red Flash-Sale, 50% off these selected books (with free worldwide shipping) until Feb 15, midnight (UTC).
Click here to activate your discount. Staff Picks: Books of the Year 2016—Chosen by Verso The antidote to the ills of 2016 has to be found in a book. As Verso staffers have found over the course of this year, we turn to books for nourishment and resources to help us make sense of and respond to this monumental year and times to come. As much as we publish books for both these purposes, there are others out there doing much of the same good work. So once again, here's our non-Verso staff picks from Verso staff in London and New York! Five Book Plan: The Long Latin American Commune George Ciccariello-Maher is a writer, organizer, and professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University. He is the author most recently of Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Instituted for Social Research at the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) where he is researching popular self-defense movements.