Purgatory
10 best books like Purgatory (Tomás Eloy Martínez): King Stakh's Wild Hunt, The Planets, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, Tyrant Memory, No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea, The Sixty-Five Years of Washington, Asleep in the Sun, The Islands, El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia, Open Door
| Author | Uladzimir Karatkevich |
King Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys’ line, he learns of the family curse and terrible...
| Author | Sergio Chejfec |
| ISBN | 1934824399 |
Both of Chejfec's books that have been translated into English (The Planets and My Two Worlds) have proven themselves somewhat difficult to get through. Not because Chejfec is a difficult writer per se, nor because I find them exhausting, but there is resistance in his prose that I liken to someone inviting...
| Author | César Aira |
| ISBN | 0811219992 |
César Aira's newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single, in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality his weaknesses, whims, and pet peeves is summed up in a series of digressions and regressions but he has a very special gift for miracles. He no longer cares...
| Author | Horacio Castellanos Moya |
| ISBN | 0811219178 |
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted...
No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea
| Author | Juan Pablo Villalobos |
| ISBN | 8433998226 |
«No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea», nos advierten con frecuencia los distintos narradores y personajes de esta historia, en la que lo corriente se transforma en un delirio sin que uno sepa muy bien cómo, en la que lo raro acaba siendo normal y en la que no podemos hacer otra cosa que reírnos, porque...
The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
| Author | Juan José Saer |
| ISBN | 1934824208 |
It’s October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He’s on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170954 |
Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She’s been staying out till all hours of the night and grows more disagreeable by the day. Should Lucio have...
| Author | Carlos Gamerro |
| ISBN | 1908276088 |
Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade spent immersed in drugs and virtual realities, trying to forget the freezing...
El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
| Author | Patricio Pron |
| ISBN | 8439723636 |
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| Author | Iosi Havilio |
| ISBN | 1908276037 |
"An ambiguous tale that verges on dark comedy. . . . With skill and subtlety, the novel hints that a whole society might labor under an illusion of liberty."—The Economist
When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after...
| Author | Enrique Krauze |
| ISBN | 0066214734 |
An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region’s most prominentthinkers
Inhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, awork which the Wall Street Journal calls “the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico,” prize-winning author Enrique...
| Author | Laura Restrepo |
| ISBN | 0060834854 |
El asesinato irreflexivo de Adriano Monsalve por parte de su primo hermano Nando Barragán, desencadena una guerra fratricida destinada a durar hasta el fin de los tiempos y marcada por la inexorable ley del desierto: la sangre se paga con sangre. Barraganes y Monsalves alimentarán su sed de venganza...
| Author | Hernán Ronsino |
| ISBN | 9872514011 |
Desde la puerta de la peluquería frente a la Glaxo, Vardemann había observado durante días cómo una cuadrilla de obreros levantaba las vías del tren. Ya no más ese sonido capaz de tapar hasta el ruido de un balazo, ni aquel previo a la detención, “tan estridente, que hace doler las muelas. Sólo...
The Only Living Man With A Hole In His Head
| Author | Todd Colby Pliss |
| ISBN | 0983868174 |
One man. One Tamping Iron. One medical marvel.
Based on a true story, “The Only Living Man With A Hole in His Head” tells the tale of railroad foreman Phineas Gage, whom in 1848, had a three-foot long, inch-and-a-half in diameter, thirteen pound iron rod blast though his skull, taking out...
1600s Mexico- The Aztec Prince Ixtililxochitl writes that the first people to inhabit his land came from the Tower of Babel at the dividing of tongues…Scholars dismiss his writings as myth.
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1800s Mid Western United States- Settlers dig into ancient burial mounds and discover thousands...
| Author | Ricardo Piglia |
| ISBN | 8433924710 |
Respiración artificial se trata no sólo del único libro memorable publicado durante el período de la dictadura militar (la edición original es de 1980), sino también de una espléndida ficción que se convierte en espejo de la historia, de una novela que, utilizando la estructura de la novela...
Dokument rörande spelaren Rubashov
| Author | Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| ISBN | 9100562947 |
Det är nyårsnatt i Sankt Petersburg, snart ska stadens kyrkklockor ringa in det nya seklet och den mångtusenhövdade skaran på Nevski stämma upp sina hurrarop. Ensam på sitt rum sitter den förfallne spelaren Josef Rubashov, utfattig och färdig för gäldstugan. Men denna det nittonde århundradets...
| Author | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
| ISBN | 8807840065 |
No sé si es que yo no me he enterado, si el libro es malo, o si Vázquez Montalbán escribió este libro para él mismo. A ratos confuso, a ratos absurdo, a ratos desesperante. Me ha recordado en muchos momentos a El Príncipe, salvo porque, a mi parecer, este último juega mucho mejor al juego de la crítica...
| Author | Marcelo Figueras |
| ISBN | 8466313397 |
Kamchatka is the last word that Harry hears from his father's lips. In that fantastic and inaccessible territory is where the ten year-old boy will take mental refuge to cure his wounds. Due to the abductions during Argentina's coup d tat, and knowing they are being chased, his parents decide to hide...
| Author | Guillermo Martínez |
| ISBN | 9507422765 |
Acerca de Roderer narra o confronto vital e intelectual entre dois jovens de inteligência privilegiada. O primeiro usa esta inteligência de forma prática para se adaptar ao mundo, o segundo na busca de um conhecimento absoluto que lhe permita compreender o mundo, deslizando perigosamente até...
| Author | Carlos Fuentes |
| ISBN | 1400068800 |
Winner of the Cervantes Prize
Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with...
Diaries of an Emotional Prostitute
| Author | Beatrice McClearn |
| ISBN | 0982981406 |
Delilah Hutchens was an ordinary girl; whose only struggle was determining if God was real. But after her mother's sudden abandonment and her father's love affair with alcohol, Delilah's ordinary home turned upside down, forcing her to denounce God and turn to emotional prostitution. When her first...
| Author | Juan Filloy |
| ISBN | 1564784347 |
His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything—from his meals down to his regular visits to the city brothels—timed to the minute. But when an insignificant traffic delay upsets this sacred schedule, and on the day of Oloop's engagement party, the clock begins ticking...
