9 best-selling latin american books like Paradais by Fernanda Melchor

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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…

"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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1. 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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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
"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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2. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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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

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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
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4. Carcoma

By: Layla Martínez

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more

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  • novella
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

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5. 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

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's Our Share of Night book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
"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

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7. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia de la Cerda's Perras de reserva book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • latin american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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8. Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more

Similar categories in Mónica Ojeda's Jawbone book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

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9. 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

Similar categories in Fernanda Melchor's Paradais book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • novels
  • adult
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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10. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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11. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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12. 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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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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13. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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14. 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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  • literary fiction
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"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

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15. Casas vacías

By: Brenda Navarro

4.23

Format: 209 pages, ebook

Casas vacías habla del dolor de las mujeres ante la desaparición de un hijo y de su propia vida. Es… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Navarro's Casas vacías book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • spanish literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"¿Por qué les llaman desaparecidos y no se atreven a llamarlos muertos? Porque los muertos somos los que los buscamos, ellos siempre, siempre seguirán vivos."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Me faltan kilos, me sobran ropa, personas, horas. ¿En qué momento me darán ganas de ir y tirarme por la ventana? Quizá deba admitir que la tristeza me acomoda porque soy egoísta."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Las clases sociales no se rozan. Y en todo caso, si nosotros teníamos acceso a ese tipo de relaciones era por la nacionalidad de Fran y Nagore, no por el dinero. O eres rico o eres blanco, no hay mat…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Que se acabara todo de una vez y para siempre. Que hubiera un terremoto, una bomba, una guerra, una pistola, unos insurrectos rencorosos, una araña venenosa, un edificio de veinte pisos, una valentía…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

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16. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • spanish literature
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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17. Still Born

By: Guadalupe Nettel

4.13

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

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18. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • latin american
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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19. Diseris

By: Darius Žiūra

4.41

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

„Dariaus Žiūros teksto veikėjai, iš kurių pagrindinis yra jis pats, įtraukia į nenuspėjamus poelgių… read more

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20. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
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21. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Alia Trabucco Zerán's Clean book and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais

  • literary fiction
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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Mónica Ojeda

3.86

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Layla Martínez

4.17

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4.28

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Fernanda Melchor

4.06

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Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

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Brenda Navarro

4.07

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Liliana Blum

4.01

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