16 must-read contemporary books like Huaco retrato by Gabriela Wiener

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Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Huaco retrato by Gabriela Wiener , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

Similar categories in Itamar Vieira Junior's Torto Arado book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

Cover of La mala costumbre by Alana S. Portero

2. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

Similar categories in Alana S. Portero's La mala costumbre book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • contemporary
  • feminism
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

Cover of Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol by Mónica Ojeda

3. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

Similar categories in Mónica Ojeda's Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
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4. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

Similar categories in Veronica Raimo's Niente di vero book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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5. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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6. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

Similar categories in Ia Genberg's The Details book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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7. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

8. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • contemporary
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9. Ceniza en la boca

By: Brenda Navarro

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Diego salta desde un quinto piso y desde entonces esa imagen no deja de taladrarle la cabeza a su h… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Navarro's Ceniza en la boca book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • womens
  • latin american
  • contemporary
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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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11. Simpatía

By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more

Similar categories in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's Simpatía book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

Similar categories in Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • latin american
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • queer
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13. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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14. The House on Via Gemito

By: Domenico Starnone

3.65

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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17. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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18. Białe noce

By: Urszula Honek

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Z pozoru nic się nie dzieje: mała podgórska miejscowość, kilka osób, nieuchwytny czas. A jednak świ… read more

Similar categories in Urszula Honek's Białe noce book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

19. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

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20. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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21. Tidal Waters

By: Velia Vidal

3.57

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

An epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Co… read more

Similar categories in Velia Vidal's Tidal Waters book and Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato

  • literary fiction

6 Best womens books like Huaco retrato by Gabriela Wiener

Transform Your Habits

Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Niente di vero

Veronica Raimo

3.59

Transform Your Habits

No es un río

Selva Almada

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Ceniza en la boca

Brenda Navarro

4.07

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Ladrilleros

Selva Almada

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Mamut

Eva Baltasar

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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