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Latin American Voices in Fiction
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult, W=western.
Anthologies
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General Fiction
- Allende, Isabel
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(1985)The saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas and theirs is an unforgetable world.
- Amado, Jorge
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(1993)(Sumico da Santa)A statue of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is to be displayed in the local museum but Saint Barbara has livelier plans.
- Andahazi, Frederico
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(2000)This novel recreates the scenes that inspired the novel Frankenstein with an additional competitor tossed into the mix of Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron.
- Arenas, Reinaldo
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(2001)Fray Servando — priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist — wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded female, a slaveship captain, and the Inquisition.
- Arias, Arturo
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(2003)Tom Wright, a CIA agent, is sent to Guatemala to resue an Australian banker abducted by guerillas. There he encounters his first love, Sandra Herrera, who has married into one of Guatemala's most powerful families. His involvement with her exposes him to internal turmoil and a host of dangers.
- Barrientos, Tanya Maria
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(2003)When Nita DeLeon's mother died, she took with her a painful famly secret that Nita discovers while searching for some semblance of family.
- Benedetti, Mario
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(1997)A collection of short stories that spans four decades of the work of this Uruguayan author.
- Bolaño, Roberto
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(2003)This is a single night's deathbed rant revolving around Opus Dei, crazed shemes, poetry and Pinochet poured out by Father Urrutia, a Chilean priest.
- Bombal, Maria Luisa
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(1995)Helga struggles to gain her husband's appreciation. A shrouded woman reviews her life as she views the mourners at her wake. Both novels focus on the artifice of upper-class Chilean women of the early twentieth century.
- Borges, Jorge Luis
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(1998)A collection of the short fiction of Argentina's master writer.
- Chavarrie, Daniel
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(2002)This is an epic mystery set in ancient Greece in the time of Pericles. A mad priest and an entrancing whore join the likes of Alcibiades and Socrates in a quest for a lost jewel, the Dyndimenian Eye.
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz
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(2003)In the 1950s, a time when American influence is diluting Puerto Rico's rich island culture, Consuelo watches her own family's downward spiral.
- Cortazar, Julio
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(1985)A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams. A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim. The stories collected here explore the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
- Franco Ramos, Jorge
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(2004)Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Ramos's study of contrasts, set in self-destruction 1980s Medellin. Her name (evoking the rosary, and scissors) tells of her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets.
- Fuentes, Carlos
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(2006)In this provocative novel, Fuentes exposes many of the political skeletons lurking in the closet of Mexican history, as he weaves a novel of cunning, naked ambition, and duplicity.
- Garcia, Cristina
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(2003)This novel chronicles the fortunes of Chen Pan, a Chinese who is enslaved in the Cuban sugar fields in 1857 and later becomes a prosperous businessman in Havana.
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
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(1988)Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives.
- Giardinelli, Mempo
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(2001)In one night, a successful business man and a young married woman become cold serial killers, leaving a trail of death in their wake. Alfredo Romero and his lover, Griselda, wife of his best friend and business associate, murder her husband and proceed to commit a series of crimes in this fast-paced thriller.
- Gonzalez, Rigoberto
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(2003)This uncompromisingly thought-provoking tale gives names and faces to the anonymous agricultural laborers, whose lives are like the tangled vines of the fruits of their labor.
- Lugones, Leopoldo
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(c. 1906, pub. 2001)(Fuerzas extranas)This collection of 12 brief stories by a celebrated Argentian writer are said to be a significant contribution to Gaslight Era science fiction.
- Mastretta, Angela
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(2003)Each of the stories in this volume reveals a different woman, yet they are all linked by the revelation that women share an unnamed force, whether it comes in the form of iron resolve, flaming passion or simply the knowing and mystical ways to nututure a soul.
- Menendez, Ana
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(2003)A missing mother, a mysterious parcel of old letters and a young woman in search of her roots reveal an astonishing story of a woman's affair with Che Guevara and an intimate portrait of revolutionary Cuba and Cubans in exile.
- Montero, Mayra
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(2001)This love story unfolds against the heated backdrop of exotic religious rituals.
- Paz Soldan, Edmundo
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(2003)Pablo, a Bolivian-American political scientist, who teaches at a university in upstate New York, has become involved in an erotically charged romance that inspires his return to Bolivia to seek answers to his own past.
- Piglia, Ricardo
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(2003)This is the story of a gang of bandits who raid a bank in downtown Buenos Aires. They escape with millions in cash but six weeks later find their hideout surrounded by three hundred military police, jornalists and TV cameras.
- Piñon, Nelida
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(1992)(Doce Cancào de Caetana)Caetana and her traveling carnival return to a small city in the interior of Brazil where they rekindle old flames and hurts.
- Poniatowska, Elena
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(2001)(Hasta No Verte Jesus Mio)The difficult life of Josfina Borquez, a working-class woman, spans some of the seminal events in early twentieth-century Mexico.
- Restrepo, Laura
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(2002)Sayonara is a legendary Indian prostitute in the city of Tora, Columbia but when she falls in love with a man she can never have, her unrequited passion has tragic consequences.
- Sagastizãbal, Patricia
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(2001)Set in 1990s London, this prize-winning novel tell the story of an Argentinian writer living in self-imposed exile with her teenaged daughter.
- Santos-Febres, Mayra
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(2000)A fifteen-year-old homeless boy with a mesmerizing singing voice, a drag queen, and the owner of a resort hotel are brought together in this tragicomedy.
- Santos-Febres, Mayra
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(1996)A former South American Marxist guerrilla is in a race against an ex-Stasi agent to uncover the truth about a cache of medieval coins stolen during World War II.
- Skinner, Jose
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(2001)The life experiences of Latinos and their friends, enemies, lovers and families form these stories.
- Toscana, David
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(2001)This is a whimsical tale about a group of circucs performers who attempt to settle down and live like ordinary people.
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
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(2001)A tyrant's last days are recounted at the end of a regime in the Dominican Republic and the terrible birth of a democracy.
- Villanueva, Alma
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(2003)A street-wise 12-year-old tries to come to grips with an unstable family situation by writing diary entries addressed to "La Virgen."