6 must-read short stories books like Simple e imperfecto by Juan Cruz Balián

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Simple e imperfecto

By: Juan Cruz Balián

3.62

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

La Humanidad ha dejado de envejecer. Las vacaciones pueden simularse en realidad virtual. Los viaje…

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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more

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  • fiction
"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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2. 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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  • fiction
"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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3. 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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  • fiction
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4. Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

By: Gabriel Rolón

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Este no es un libro escrito exclusivamente para psicólogos, sino para todo aquel que se interese e… read more

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  • short stories
"A mi papá solo lo tuve cinco años de mi vida, Rolón. Sin embargo, es lo más importante que he tenido jamás."

-Gabriel Rolón, Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

"Porque una parte importante de la relación amorosa, se juega en esta posibilidad de reconocer los defectos del otro y preguntarse, sinceramente, si se puede ser feliz a pesar de ellos."

-Gabriel Rolón, Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

"La muerte es incomprensible, injusta, y el dolor que ocasiona a los que sufren la pérdida de un ser querido es, siempre, tan grande y tan profundo que la propia vida parece haberse ido con la persona…"

-Gabriel Rolón, Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

"Cuando alguien arma un proyecto, ¿qué hace? Simple... Pone algo entre la muerte y él: "Hoy voy a hacer tal cosa, mañana voy a hacer tal otra". Y esto es algo fundamental. Porque si no hiciera nada te…"

-Gabriel Rolón, Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

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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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  • short stories
  • 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. Ghosts (The New York Trilogy, #2)

By: Paul Auster

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The second book in the acclaimed New York Trilogy--a detective story that becomes a haunting and ee… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Locked Room (The New York Trilogy, #3)

By: Paul Auster

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When Fanshaw disappears, leaving behind a wife, a baby and an extraordinary cache of novels, plays … read more

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  • fiction
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8. City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)

By: Paul Auster

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glassinaugurates an intriguing N… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Éste es el mar

By: Mariana Enríquez

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Ritos de pasaje, adolescentes fanatizadas con estrellas de rock, inframundos donde conviven seres q… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

11. The Longest Day Of The Future

By: Lucas Varela

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

In a futuristic city, two mega-companies share power, while indulging in a thankless war to elimina… read more

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12. El Eternauta (Edición Aniversario: 50 Años, 1957-2007)

By: Francisco Solano López , Héctor Germán Oesterheld , Fernando Ariel García

3.93

Format: 214 pages,

El Eternauta: La historieta original. Edicion especial: literatura complementaria. Ni de paz ni de … read more

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13. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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  • fiction
"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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14. Bajar es lo peor

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Bajar es lo peor, la primera novela de Mariana Enriquez, publicada en 1995, de reciente reaparición… read more

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  • fiction
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15. 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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16. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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  • fiction
"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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17. 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
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18. 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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  • 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

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19. El feminismo

By: María Elena Walsh

4.52

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Todavía los movimientos de mujeres no habían eclosionado en la Argentina, cuando María Elena Walsh … read more

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20. Los llanos

By: Federico Falco

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Finalista del 38.º Premio Herralde de Novela Una novela sutil que aborda el duelo de una ruptura… read more

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  • fiction
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21. La vida por delante

By: Magalí Etchebarne

3.88

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Un grupo de mujeres que se resiste a la sordidez de la vejez y la enfermedad; dos amigas de vacacio… read more

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  • short stories
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22. Una casa llena de gente

By: Mariana Sández

3.98

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Una madre; una hija; una abuela. Los vecinos de arriba; los de enfrente; los de abajo. Padres; herm… read more

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  • fiction
"Escribir es corregir. Escribir es corregirse."

-Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente

"Escribir es retener, aprisionar, comprimir. Lo que se escapa."

-Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente

"Yo guardo, conservo, acopio, registro, saco fotos, retengo lo inmaterial. Arrincono memorias."

-Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente

"da culpa triunfar a costa de la vejez que es sinónimo de empequeñecimiento y pérdida de facultades"

-Mariana Sández, Una casa llena de gente

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23. Un mundo inmenso: Explicaciones de lugares inexplicables

By: Un mundo inmenso

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

¿Sabías que Oimiakón es el pueblo más frío del mundo, donde los teléfonos móviles se congelan y las… read more

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24. Las ceremonias

By: Marcos Aramburu

4.45

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Un artista y sus búsquedas, un médico y sus demonios, trabajadoras sexuales versus la policía y un … read more

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25. Lecturas Feministas. Escritos desde el sigli V a.C. hasta el presente

By: Gabriela Borrelli Azara

3.99

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

¿Qué une a la poeta de la antigüedad Safo de Lesbos con Simone de Beauvoir, a la japonesa Sei Shona… read more

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26. Fiebre: breve colección de epidemias

By: Juan Manuel Carballeda

4.49

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Un libro lleno de dramatismo, pero del divertido. Una perspectiva diferente sobre las enfermedades … read more

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27. Un libro sobre drogas (Spanish Edition)

By: Andrés Rieznik

4.59

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Un libro sobre drogas es, en realidad, un libro sobre ciencia, política y la relación entre ellas y… read more

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28. Simple e imperfecto

By: Juan Cruz Balián

3.62

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

La Humanidad ha dejado de envejecer. Las vacaciones pueden simularse en realidad virtual. Los viaje… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. 118. El universo en una tabla

By: El Gato y la Caja

4.11

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Existen pocos íconos de la ciencia tan reconocibles como la tabla periódica de los elementos. Sabem… read more

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30. Breve atlas anecdótico de la ciencia

By: Juan Manuel Carballeda

4.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Historias de todo el mundo atravesadas por la ciencia y narradas por Juan Manuel Carballeda en un l… read more

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31. Anuario 2017

By: El Gato y la Caja

4.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Investigación, Comunicación y Diseño de un proyecto que creció y cambió junto a su comunidad. read more

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18 Best fiction books like Simple e imperfecto by Juan Cruz Balián

Transform Your Habits

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Las primas

Aurora Venturini

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Things We Lost in the Fire

Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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Los suicidas del fin del mundo: Crónica de un pueblo patagónico

Leila Guerriero

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Julio Cortázar y Cris

Cristina Peri Rossi

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Una historia sencilla

Leila Guerriero

3.95

Transform Your Habits

La llamada: Un retrato

Leila Guerriero

4.49

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