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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Neruda case The Neruda case Roberto Ampuero "Originally published in Spanish as El Caso Neruda by La otra orilla/Grupo Norma, Barcelona, Spain"-- "Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationall… OL16499143W
Más allá del invierno Más allá del invierno Isabel Allende In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a … OL17721361W
A distant father A distant father Antonio Skármeta Jacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his passion for the French language to his Parisian father, Pierre, who, one year before, a… OL17922654W
The days of the rainbow The days of the rainbow Antonio Skármeta Bettini struggles with creating a campaign to unite the factions under a common cause, while Nico, searching for his father, a professor imprisoned by the current regime, finds his eyes opening to th… OL17927573W
Retrato en sepia Retrato en sepia Isabel Allende Una obra de extraordinaria dimension humana que eleva la narrativa de la autora a cotas de perfeccion literariaNarrada en la voz de una joven mujer, esta es una magnifica novela historica, situada a … OL1905303W
La vida doble La vida doble Arturo Fontaine Talavera "Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression… OL19666827W
Camanchaca Camanchaca Diego Zúñiga "A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncl… OL20049944W
Atmospheric disturbances Atmospheric disturbances Rivka Galchen When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows bet… OL20500760W
This Thing of Darkness This Thing of Darkness Harry Thompson The year is 1828. Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS *Beagle*, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. But Fitzroy hides a dark secre… OL2124147W
We Are the End We Are the End Gonzalo C. Garcia 1 online resource (208 pages) OL21610288W
By night in Chile By night in Chile Roberto Bolaño A hypnotic deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei, crazed schemes, poetry, and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of Father Urrutia, a half-hearted Chilean… OL712026W
Mariana and the merchild Mariana and the merchild Caroline Pitcher A childless old woman is given a merbaby to raise until the child can safely return to the sea. OL85266W
Travesuras de la niña mala Travesuras de la niña mala Mario Vargas Llosa Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the mo… OL857660W