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What books are currently the most popular and which are the all time classics? Here we present you with a mixture of those two criteria. We update this list once a month.
JULIO RIBEIRO
A Carne is a 1888 Naturalist novel by Júlio Ribeiro. It is one of the most polemical works of the Brazilian literature, being frequently compared and considered as a forerunner to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
René Marqués
La Carreta is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. The story follows a family of "jíbaros" or rural peasants that in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States. The story is divided in three acts, each focusing on a specific …
Roberto Bolaño
Tres is a collection of poems by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, originally published in Spanish in 2000 and scheduled to be published in a bilingual edition in September 2011, translated into English by Laura Healy. The collection is composed of three sections: “Prose from …
Mendoza/Montaner/Llosa
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot is a book by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Álvaro Vargas Llosa.
Helen DeWitt
The long-awaited second novel by the author of “arguably the most exciting debut novel of the decade: The Last Samurai.” (Sam Anderson, New York). “All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then …
Edgar Cantero
A mesmerizing novel...what begins as a gothic ghost story soon evolves into a wickedly twisted treasure hunt in The Supernatural Enhancements, Edgar Cantero's wholly original, modern-day adventure.When twentysomething A., the European relative of the Wells family, inherits a …