18 Best fiction books like An Open Secret by Carlos Gamerro

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An Open Secret

By: Carlos Gamerro

3.51

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be "disappeared" by the mil…

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1. Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream… A young woman named Amanda lies dyin… read more

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"There’s only so much searching you can do, either a horse is there or it’s not."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"I’m just tired, that’s what I tell myself, and sometimes I’m afraid when I think that everyday problems might be a little more terrible for me than for other people."

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"But I’m going to die in a few hours. That’s going to happen, isn’t it? It’s strange how calm I am. Because even though you haven’t told me, I know. And still, it’s an impossible thing to tell yoursel…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

"My mother always said something bad would happen. My mother was sure that sooner or later something bad would happen and now I can see it with total clarity, I can feel it coming toward us like a tan…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

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2. Las primas

By: Aurora Venturini

3.91

Format: None pages, pocket

Cuatro mujeres orbitando eternamente en el vacio. La premiadisima primera novela de la octogenaria … read more

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Cover of Il diavolo sulle colline by Cesare Pavese, Marziano Guglielminetti

3. Il diavolo sulle colline

By: Cesare Pavese , Marziano Guglielminetti

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tre giovani amici lasciano la citta per una vacanza nella campagna piemontese e qui, tra gite, inco… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Rabia

By: Sergio Bizzio

2.60

Format: None pages,

Jose Maria (obrero de la construccion, 40 anos) y Rosa (empleada domestica, 25) se conocen haciendo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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5. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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  • fiction
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

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6. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

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  • fiction
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7. El hombre que amaba a los perros

By: Leonardo Padura

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Ivan, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un pauperrimo g… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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8. Los pichiciegos

By: Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

4.00

Format: 205 pages,

Escrita en medio del conflicto belico y terminada poco antes de que finalizara la guerra de Malvina… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

9. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Windcomes a riveting new masterpi… read more

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10. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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  • fiction
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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11. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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12. Soy una tonta por quererte

By: Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En plena decada de los años 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En… read more

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  • fiction
"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

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13. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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  • fiction
"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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14. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

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15. Tesis sobre una domesticación

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.11

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

La escritora y actriz trans cordobesa, Camila Sosa Villada, acaba de publicar su nueva novela, la s… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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17. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Las fotos

By: Inés Ulanovsky

4.49

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

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19. La estirpe

By: Carla Maliandi

3.37

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Entre fragmentos de recuerdos y de olvidos que parecen dominados por el azar, Ana intenta recobrar … read more

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  • fiction
"Cuando la bola espejada se me cayó en mi cabeza no sentí ningún dolor. Vi las caras de todos desfigurarse alrededor y la flor que tenía en el pelo tirada en el piso, abierta en una decena de pétalos.…"

-Carla Maliandi, La estirpe

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20. An Open Secret

By: Carlos Gamerro

3.51

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be "disappeared" by the mil… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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21. The Unworthy

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.84

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling wor… read more

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  • fiction

6 Best novels books like An Open Secret by Carlos Gamerro

Transform Your Habits

Il diavolo sulle colline

Cesare Pavese , Marziano Guglielminetti

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Rabia

Sergio Bizzio

2.60

Transform Your Habits

El hombre que amaba a los perros

Leonardo Padura

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Los pichiciegos

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

4.00

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16 best-selling fiction books like Soy una tonta por quererte by Camila Sosa Villada

Transform Your Habits

Las primas

Aurora Venturini

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

Transform Your Habits

La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

Salomé Esper

3.89

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