Trout, Belly Up
By: Rodrigo Fuentes
3.73
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In this highly original collection of interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is e…
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1. Ladrilleros
By: Selva Almada
4.16
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Luego de El viento que arrasa, su primera novela, verdadero acontecimiento literario debido a la gr… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
"A knife is almost like a continuation of your arm; you’d feel the other man’s life slipping out through the wound, the enemy blood gushing up the handle and wetting your clenched fist."-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Antes de decirle que sí al cura, Celina le había dicho que sí a su novio, a la urgencia de sus besos que le dejaban el cuello y los hombros llenos de pequeños moretones. Que era como decirle, también…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Marciano solía sentarse afuera las noches en que el calor hacía imposible quedarse adentro. Es decir, casi todas las noches del año, excepto las del invierno, tan breve como un suspiro. Todo el barri…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
2. A Resistência
By: Julián Fuks
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“Meu irmão é adotado, mas não posso e não quero dizer que meu irmão é adotado”, anuncia, logo no in… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
3. My Documents
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
4. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
5. La débil mental
By: Ariana Harwicz
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Escrita como un flujo de conciencia que recuerda a la mejor literatura moderna -Virgina Woolf, Nath… read more
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6. Chicas muertas
By: Selva Almada
3.18
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more
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7. Pajarito
By: None
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Aqui dentro hay un escritor que colecciona tornillos, un enfermero peculiar, trabajos en hoteles y … read more
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8. La Virgen Cabeza
By: None
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pura materia enloquecida de azar, eso, pensaba Quity, es la vida. En El Poso, uno de esos pequenos … read more
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9. El viento que arrasa
By: Selva Almada
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more
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10. Multiple Choice
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Multiple Choiceis unlike anything I've ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonde… read more
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11. Loop
By: Brenda Lozano
3.74
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás t… read more
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- 21st century
- latin american
- fiction
"Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself."-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"Childhood is so uncertain, so distant. It's almost like childhood is the origin of fiction: describing any past event over and over to see how far away you are getting from reality."-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all blows or falls leave marks, the words are there, ready to be put together in different ways, anywh…"-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"...the present is also, as its name suggests, a gift. It doesn't suggest longing or loss. It's just a present, a gift, a time with no strings attached which is totally ours, to use however we want, h…"-Brenda Lozano, Loop
12. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
13. Pelea de gallos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.15
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –o destruye– a la… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos
14. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
15. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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- novella
- latin american
- fiction
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
16. 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
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- literature
- novella
- latin american
- fiction
17. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
18. El tiempo de las moscas
By: Claudia Piñeiro
3.79
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Inés sale en libertad, después de quince años presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex… read more
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- literature
- fiction
19. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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- literature
- 21st century
- short stories
- fiction
20. The Forgery
By: Ave Barrera
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va… read more
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- literature
- novella
- fiction
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño.…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidie…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
21. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
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- latin american
- fiction
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
22. Panics
By: Barbara Molinard
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradic… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
24. Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection … read more
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- novella
- latin american
- short stories
- fiction
- 21st century
- international
25. 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
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- literature
- fiction
"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
26. The President's Room
By: Ricardo Romero
3.56
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
In a nameless, homogenised suburb, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows … read more
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- novella
- latin american
- fiction
27. La habitación alemana
By: Carla Maliandi
3.80
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
¿Podemos afirmar que La habitación alemana, primera novela de Carla Maliandi, inventa un género nue… read more
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- literature
- 21st century
- latin american
- fiction
28. Tierra fresca de su tumba
By: Giovanna Rivero
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more
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- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba
29. A Perfect Cemetery
By: Federico Falco
3.83
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
In the middle of a blizzard a widow is looking out at the ruin of her late-husband’s garden, when s… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
30. Trout, Belly Up
By: Rodrigo Fuentes
3.73
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In this highly original collection of interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is e… read more
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- literature
- novella
- latin american
- latino
- short stories
- fiction
- 21st century
- international
31. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
