If you liked the poetry plot in Una esperanza i el mar by Magda Portal , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.79
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
4. 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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"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
5. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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- poetry
6. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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7. Ajuar funerario
By: Fernando Iwasaki
4.20
Format: None pages,
Ajuar funerarioes un homenaje a la literatura de terror y a la microrrativa, porque Fernando Iwasak… read more
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8. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
9. Aura
By: Carlos Fuentes
3.82
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more
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"Hay que morir antes de renacer."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
10. Beauty Salon
By: Mario Bellatin , Kurt Hollander
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
"Like much of Mr. Bellatin's work, Beauty Salonis pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing, wit… read more
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11. Bonsai
By: Alejandro Zambra
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more
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12. La ciudad de los tísicos
By: Abraham Valdelomar
4.90
Format: None pages,
Un narrador anonimo comparte un recuerdo: una tarde lluviosa observa a una mujer a la que cree cono… read more
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13. Prosas apátridas
By: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Julio Ramon Ribeyro nacio en Peru en agosto de 1929 en un hogar de tipica clase media limena. Inuti… read more
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14. Trilce
By: César Vallejo , None , None
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic le… read more
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15. Silk
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more
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16. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
17. Cien cuyes
By: Gustavo Rodríguez
4.14
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
Cuando Eufrasia Vela empieza a trabajar como cuidadora de ancianos, no sospecha que su oficio la ll… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. 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
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20. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
21. 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
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22. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
23. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
24. Una esperanza i el mar
By: Magda Portal
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
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