🇦🇷 Contemporary Argentina

Fiction and nonfiction set in modern Argentina, capturing a nation shaped by economic turbulence, political passion, literary brilliance, and the long shadow of its past.

Ser feliz era esto

by Eduardo Sacheri • 2014

A fourteen-year-old orphan shows up unannounced at her father's door, demanding a place in his life.

4.08

5k+

🥀 Grieving Teen 🖤 Estranged Father 🍼 Unexpected Parenthood

Ser feliz era esto 90%

A fourteen-year-old orphan shows up unannounced at her father's door, demanding a place in his life.

by Eduardo Sacheri 2014

4.08

5k+ ratings

🥀 Grieving Teen 🖤 Estranged Father 🍼 Unexpected Parenthood

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enriquez • 2016

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

4.03

65k+

📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

Things We Lost in the Fire 88%

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

by Mariana Enriquez 2016

4.03

65k+ ratings

📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

Furia

by Yamile Saied Méndez • 2020

Camila's fútbol genius must stay hidden. Her famous ex's return threatens the double life she built.

4.14

15k+

🎭 Sports Drama ⚽ Girls In Sports 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers

Furia 88%

Camila's fútbol genius must stay hidden. Her famous ex's return threatens the double life she built.

by Yamile Saied Méndez 2020

4.14

15k+ ratings

🎭 Sports Drama ⚽ Girls In Sports 💕 Childhood Friends To Lovers

Radical Cities

by Justin McGuirk • 2014

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

4.27

434

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities

Radical Cities 88%

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

by Justin McGuirk 2014

4.27

434 ratings

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities

The Devil of the Provinces

by Juan Cárdenas • 2017

Broke, a biologist returns home to murders, a monster, and a city that demands his silence.

3.36

1k+

🕵️ Latin American Noir 🏚️ Provincial Gothic 🪦 Unsolved Murder

The Devil of the Provinces 87%

Broke, a biologist returns home to murders, a monster, and a city that demands his silence.

by Juan Cárdenas 2017

3.36

1k+ ratings

🕵️ Latin American Noir 🏚️ Provincial Gothic 🪦 Unsolved Murder

El misterio del último Stradivarius

by Alejandro G. Roemmers • 2025

A Paraguayan detective hunts a stolen Stradivarius entangled with Nazi plunder and inherited guilt.

3.49

264

🖼️ Stolen Art Thriller 📜 Historical Mystery 🕵️ Disenchanted Detective

El misterio del último Stradivarius Summary

El misterio del último Stradivarius 87%

A Paraguayan detective hunts a stolen Stradivarius entangled with Nazi plunder and inherited guilt.

by Alejandro G. Roemmers 2025

3.49

264 ratings

🖼️ Stolen Art Thriller 📜 Historical Mystery 🕵️ Disenchanted Detective

Julio Cortázar

by Robert Brody • 1976

The novel that made the reader an accomplice: its mechanisms and meanings, fully decoded.

4.37

8k+

🥁 Latin American Boom 📕 Postmodern Literature 🔬 Experimental Fiction

Julio Cortázar 87%

The novel that made the reader an accomplice: its mechanisms and meanings, fully decoded.

by Robert Brody 1976

4.37

8k+ ratings

🥁 Latin American Boom 📕 Postmodern Literature 🔬 Experimental Fiction

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño • 1998

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

4.18

54k+

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History

The Savage Detectives 87%

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

by Roberto Bolaño 1998

4.18

54k+ ratings

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History

My Invented Country

by Isabel Allende • 2003

When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.

3.89

13k+

🏞️ Travel Memoir 🛅 Exile Memoir 🇨🇱 Chilean Culture

My Invented Country 87%

When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.

by Isabel Allende 2003

3.89

13k+ ratings

🏞️ Travel Memoir 🛅 Exile Memoir 🇨🇱 Chilean Culture

Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges • 1944

Libraries without end, worlds dreamed into being, a man who cannot forget: philosophy as fiction.

4.40

80k+

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 📖 Metafictional Stories 🌍 Invented Worlds

Ficciones 87%

Libraries without end, worlds dreamed into being, a man who cannot forget: philosophy as fiction.

by Jorge Luis Borges 1944

4.40

80k+ ratings

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 📖 Metafictional Stories 🌍 Invented Worlds

The Sound of Things Falling

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez • 2014

After a Bogotá shooting, one professor traces the dead ex-pilot's hidden past into the drug war.

3.85

22k+

🏚️ Drug War Aftermath 🩹 Trauma And Recovery 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma

The Sound of Things Falling 87%

After a Bogotá shooting, one professor traces the dead ex-pilot's hidden past into the drug war.

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2014

3.85

22k+ ratings

🏚️ Drug War Aftermath 🩹 Trauma And Recovery 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma

Our Share of Night

by Mariana Enriquez • 2019

A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.

4.25

65k+

🕯️ Occult Secret Society 🕸️ Gothic Family Curse 👻 Mediums And Spirits

Our Share of Night 87%

A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.

by Mariana Enriquez 2019

4.25

65k+ ratings

🕯️ Occult Secret Society 🕸️ Gothic Family Curse 👻 Mediums And Spirits

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa • 1977

An aspiring writer falls for his divorcée aunt as a radio scriptwriter's genius turns to chaos.

3.96

24k+

📖 Autofiction 💕 Age Gap Romance ✍️ Artist'S Coming Of Age

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter 87%

An aspiring writer falls for his divorcée aunt as a radio scriptwriter's genius turns to chaos.

by Mario Vargas Llosa 1977

3.96

24k+ ratings

📖 Autofiction 💕 Age Gap Romance ✍️ Artist'S Coming Of Age

Forgotten Continent

by Michael Reid • 2007

The underachieving region that may decide the future of democratic capitalism worldwide.

3.89

767

🌎 Latin American History 🏛️ Latin America Politics 🗳️ Democratization

Forgotten Continent 87%

The underachieving region that may decide the future of democratic capitalism worldwide.

by Michael Reid 2007

3.89

767 ratings

🌎 Latin American History 🏛️ Latin America Politics 🗳️ Democratization

Multiple Choice

by Alejandro Zambra • 2014

A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.

3.90

7k+

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🧩 Fragmentary Narrative 📏 Oulipian Constraints

Multiple Choice 86%

A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.

by Alejandro Zambra 2014

3.90

7k+ ratings

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🧩 Fragmentary Narrative 📏 Oulipian Constraints

A Fish in the Water

by Mario Vargas Llosa • 1993

Peru, 1990. A novelist campaigns for president while the boy who discovered books haunts his memory.

4.02

1k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗳️ Political Memoir ✍️ Writers And Politics

A Fish in the Water 86%

Peru, 1990. A novelist campaigns for president while the boy who discovered books haunts his memory.

by Mario Vargas Llosa 1993

4.02

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗳️ Political Memoir ✍️ Writers And Politics

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

by Natalia Sylvester • 2022

A Peruvian American teen hides her dream of becoming a mermaid performer from her immigrant parents.

3.82

4k+

🏡 Boy Next Door 👨‍👩‍👧 Strict Parents 🎭 Performing Arts

Breathe and Count Back from Ten 86%

A Peruvian American teen hides her dream of becoming a mermaid performer from her immigrant parents.

by Natalia Sylvester 2022

3.82

4k+ ratings

🏡 Boy Next Door 👨‍👩‍👧 Strict Parents 🎭 Performing Arts

(The Unconsoled) [By

by Kazuo Ishiguro • 1995

A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.

3.59

19k+

🔮 Dream Logic 🎹 Artist In Crisis 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

(The Unconsoled) [By 86%

A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.

by Kazuo Ishiguro 1995

3.59

19k+ ratings

🔮 Dream Logic 🎹 Artist In Crisis 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Labyrinths

by Jorge Luis Borges • 1962

Stories where a library holds every possible book and a man dreams another into being.

4.44

34k+

🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌀 Labyrinths

Labyrinths 86%

Stories where a library holds every possible book and a man dreams another into being.

by Jorge Luis Borges 1962

4.44

34k+ ratings

🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌀 Labyrinths

Olga Dies Dreaming

by Xóchitl González • 2022

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

3.96

79k+

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening

Olga Dies Dreaming 86%

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

by Xóchitl González 2022

3.96

79k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening

Lawn Boy

by Jonathan Evison • 2018

Mike Muñoz is a lawn boy, a caretaker, and a man who's never been honest about who he loves.

3.83

10k+

🏗️ Working Class Fiction 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 👨‍👦 Sibling Caretaker

Lawn Boy 86%

Mike Muñoz is a lawn boy, a caretaker, and a man who's never been honest about who he loves.

by Jonathan Evison 2018

3.83

10k+ ratings

🏗️ Working Class Fiction 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 👨‍👦 Sibling Caretaker

Mañana o pasado

by Jorge G. Castañeda • 2011

Why Mexico remains stuck between past and future, and what its diaspora reveals about change.

3.62

358

🇲🇽 Mexican Society 🏳️ National Identity 🚧 Development Obstacles

Mañana o pasado 86%

Why Mexico remains stuck between past and future, and what its diaspora reveals about change.

by Jorge G. Castañeda 2011

3.62

358 ratings

🇲🇽 Mexican Society 🏳️ National Identity 🚧 Development Obstacles

Catalina

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio • 2024

Undocumented at Harvard, she's her grandparents' American dream and their only safety net.

3.52

11k+

🎓 Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

Catalina 86%

Undocumented at Harvard, she's her grandparents' American dream and their only safety net.

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2024

3.52

11k+ ratings

🎓 Campus Novel 🧳 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

by Daniel Hernandez • 2011

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

3.61

657

🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Summary

Down and Delirious in Mexico City 86%

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

by Daniel Hernandez 2011

3.61

657 ratings

🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion

Delirio

by Laura Restrepo • 2004

A man finds his wife lost in madness and digs into her family's violent past.

3.97

13k+

🌀 Fractured Narrative 🏚️ Family Secrets 🩸 Inherited Trauma

Delirio 86%

A man finds his wife lost in madness and digs into her family's violent past.

by Laura Restrepo 2004

3.97

13k+ ratings

🌀 Fractured Narrative 🏚️ Family Secrets 🩸 Inherited Trauma

Olor a hormiga

by Júlia Peró • 2024

An elderly recluse, her talking cat, and the young caregiver who proves desire outlives dignity.

3.86

3k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🐱 Talking Cat

Olor a hormiga 86%

An elderly recluse, her talking cat, and the young caregiver who proves desire outlives dignity.

by Júlia Peró 2024

3.86

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🐱 Talking Cat

Central America's Forgotten History

by Aviva Chomsky • 2021

Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.

4.06

518

🌎 Latin American History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🕵️ Cold War Interventions

Central America's Forgotten History Summary

Central America's Forgotten History 86%

Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.

by Aviva Chomsky 2021

4.06

518 ratings

🌎 Latin American History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🕵️ Cold War Interventions

The Invention of Morel

by Adolfo Bioy Casares • 1940

A fugitive on a deserted island falls for a woman who is only a projection.

3.95

36k+

🖥️ Simulated Reality 🔄 Time Loop 🖤 Obsessive Love

The Invention of Morel 86%

A fugitive on a deserted island falls for a woman who is only a projection.

by Adolfo Bioy Casares 1940

3.95

36k+ ratings

🖥️ Simulated Reality 🔄 Time Loop 🖤 Obsessive Love

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse

by William Neuman • 2022

How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.

4.13

1k+

🛢️ Petrostates 🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics ⛓️ Resource Curse

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Summary

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse 86%

How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.

by William Neuman 2022

4.13

1k+ ratings

🛢️ Petrostates 🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics ⛓️ Resource Curse

Sin noticias de Gurb

by Eduardo Mendoza • 2001

An alien searches Barcelona for his lost partner, recording every human absurdity in his diary.

3.75

24k+

👽 Alien Observer 🎭 Absurdist Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water

Sin noticias de Gurb 86%

An alien searches Barcelona for his lost partner, recording every human absurdity in his diary.

by Eduardo Mendoza 2001

3.75

24k+ ratings

👽 Alien Observer 🎭 Absurdist Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water

Canção para ninar menino grande

by Conceição Evaristo • 2022

A railway man's lovers gather to recount desire, motherhood, and the selves they built without him.

4.09

3k+

🎭 Polyphonic Novel 💔 Unrequited Love 👩‍👩‍👧 Women'S Solidarity

Canção para ninar menino grande 86%

A railway man's lovers gather to recount desire, motherhood, and the selves they built without him.

by Conceição Evaristo 2022

4.09

3k+ ratings

🎭 Polyphonic Novel 💔 Unrequited Love 👩‍👩‍👧 Women'S Solidarity

The Accidental President of Brazil

by Fernando Henrique Cardoso • 2006

Exiled by a military regime, he returned to kill Brazil's 2,500% inflation with a new currency.

4.15

493

📝 Political Memoirs 🇧🇷 Brazilian History 📊 Economic Policymaking

The Accidental President of Brazil Summary

The Accidental President of Brazil 86%

Exiled by a military regime, he returned to kill Brazil's 2,500% inflation with a new currency.

by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2006

4.15

493 ratings

📝 Political Memoirs 🇧🇷 Brazilian History 📊 Economic Policymaking

Mexican WhiteBoy

by Matt de la Peña • 2008

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

3.85

6k+

🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship

Mexican WhiteBoy 86%

Half-Mexican, can't speak Spanish, he spends a summer in his father's barrio, looking for home.

by Matt de la Peña 2008

3.85

6k+ ratings

🌗 Biracial Identity 👤 Absent Father 🤝 Unlikely Friendship

The President

by Miguel Ángel Asturias • 1997

A colonel's murder in the cathedral porch becomes the spark for a dictator's nightmare of terror.

3.97

7k+

👤 Dictatorship Fiction 🔍 Framed For Murder 👁️ Surreal Horror

The President 86%

A colonel's murder in the cathedral porch becomes the spark for a dictator's nightmare of terror.

by Miguel Ángel Asturias 1997

3.97

7k+ ratings

👤 Dictatorship Fiction 🔍 Framed For Murder 👁️ Surreal Horror

Água Viva

by Clarice Lispector • 2012

A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.

4.25

26k+

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🧘 Philosophical Meditation

Água Viva 86%

A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.

by Clarice Lispector 2012

4.25

26k+ ratings

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🧘 Philosophical Meditation

Poesía completa

by Alejandra Pizarnik • 2000

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

4.55

11k+

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism

Poesía completa 86%

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

by Alejandra Pizarnik 2000

4.55

11k+ ratings

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz • 2007

A Dominican nerd wants love, wants to write. His family curse does not miss.

3.89

280k+

🔮 Generational Curse 🌴 Dominican Diaspora 🤓 Nerd Protagonist

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Summary

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 86%

A Dominican nerd wants love, wants to write. His family curse does not miss.

by Junot Díaz 2007

3.89

280k+ ratings

🔮 Generational Curse 🌴 Dominican Diaspora 🤓 Nerd Protagonist

Enter Ghost

by Isabella Hammad • 2023

A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.

4.11

12k+

🇵🇸 Palestinian Literature 🎭 Theatre Fiction 🏠 Return To Homeland

Enter Ghost 86%

A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.

by Isabella Hammad 2023

4.11

12k+ ratings

🇵🇸 Palestinian Literature 🎭 Theatre Fiction 🏠 Return To Homeland

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

by Andrev Walden • 2023

A Swedish boy drifts through his mother's dangerous men, each a lesson in what love is not.

4.04

22k+

🖋️ Autofiction 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Childhood 💔 Absent Fathers

Bloody Awful in Different Ways 86%

A Swedish boy drifts through his mother's dangerous men, each a lesson in what love is not.

by Andrev Walden 2023

4.04

22k+ ratings

🖋️ Autofiction 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Childhood 💔 Absent Fathers

A Girl Returned

by Donatella Di Pietrantonio • 2017

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

4.09

29k+

🍋 Italian Coming-Of-Age 📵 Maternal Absence 🏘 Dual Families

A Girl Returned 86%

Returned to her struggling birth family at thirteen, an unexpected sister becomes her anchor.

by Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017

4.09

29k+ ratings

🍋 Italian Coming-Of-Age 📵 Maternal Absence 🏘 Dual Families

El Hombre Light

by Enrique Rojas • 1992

When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.

3.12

535

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🧭 Moral Psychology 🛒 Consumerism Critique

El Hombre Light 86%

When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.

by Enrique Rojas 1992

3.12

535 ratings

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🧭 Moral Psychology 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Queda la noche

by Soledad Puértolas • 2006

A Madrid woman's Indian summer tangles her in photographs, strangers, and the quiet work of spies.

3.04

352

🎲 Chance Encounters 💔 Melancholic Longing 😐 Disaffected Narrator

Queda la noche 86%

A Madrid woman's Indian summer tangles her in photographs, strangers, and the quiet work of spies.

by Soledad Puértolas 2006

3.04

352 ratings

🎲 Chance Encounters 💔 Melancholic Longing 😐 Disaffected Narrator

Mexico

by James A. Michener • 1992

An American journalist returns to Mexico for a bullfight and must reckon with his divided heritage.

3.75

6k+

🏛️ Multigenerational Saga 🐂 Bullfighting 🪞 Divided Identity

Mexico 86%

An American journalist returns to Mexico for a bullfight and must reckon with his divided heritage.

by James A. Michener 1992

3.75

6k+ ratings

🏛️ Multigenerational Saga 🐂 Bullfighting 🪞 Divided Identity

Back on the Road (Otra Vez)

by Ernesto Che Guevara • 2000

Guatemala fell while he watched. In Mexico, Castro asked him to join a revolution.

3.72

861

🗺️ Latin American History 🧳 Political Travelogues 🌎 Cold War Latin America

Back on the Road (Otra Vez) 86%

Guatemala fell while he watched. In Mexico, Castro asked him to join a revolution.

by Ernesto Che Guevara 2000

3.72

861 ratings

🗺️ Latin American History 🧳 Political Travelogues 🌎 Cold War Latin America

Ajedrez para un detective novato

by Juan Soto Ivars • 2013

A ghostwriter framed for murder is recruited by the legendary detective who framed him.

2.89

🕵️ Postmodern Noir 📚 Detective Apprenticeship 🔪 Serial Killer Pursuit

Ajedrez para un detective novato Summary

Ajedrez para un detective novato 86%

A ghostwriter framed for murder is recruited by the legendary detective who framed him.

by Juan Soto Ivars 2013

2.89

96 ratings

🕵️ Postmodern Noir 📚 Detective Apprenticeship 🔪 Serial Killer Pursuit

No pasó nada

by Antonio Skármeta • 1980

A Chilean coup strands a boy in Berlin with no language and no way home.

3.35

983

✈️ Political Exile 🫂 Found Family 🌍 Cross-Cultural Bonds

No pasó nada 86%

A Chilean coup strands a boy in Berlin with no language and no way home.

by Antonio Skármeta 1980

3.35

983 ratings

✈️ Political Exile 🫂 Found Family 🌍 Cross-Cultural Bonds

Outline

by Rachel Cusk • 2014

In Athens to teach writing, she listens to every story but tells none of her own.

3.67

72k+

🖋️ Autofiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 📖 Stories Within Stories

Outline 86%

In Athens to teach writing, she listens to every story but tells none of her own.

by Rachel Cusk 2014

3.67

72k+ ratings

🖋️ Autofiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 📖 Stories Within Stories

The Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver • 2009

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

3.83

75k+

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction

The Lacuna 86%

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

by Barbara Kingsolver 2009

3.83

75k+ ratings

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

by Mario Benedetti • 1995

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

4.21

6k+

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy

El amor, las mujeres y la vida 86%

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

by Mario Benedetti 1995

4.21

6k+ ratings

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy

The Imperfectionists

by Tom Rachman • 2010

Orbiting a dying English-language newspaper in Rome, flawed lives come undone one edition at a time.

3.55

50k+

📚 Linked Story Collection 📰 Newsroom Fiction 🏛️ Dying Institutions

The Imperfectionists 86%

Orbiting a dying English-language newspaper in Rome, flawed lives come undone one edition at a time.

by Tom Rachman 2010

3.55

50k+ ratings

📚 Linked Story Collection 📰 Newsroom Fiction 🏛️ Dying Institutions

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