South American Literature

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian.

In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society.

In James William Gardner’s new collection of short stories, the listener will gain authentic insight into the fascinating world of the American south. With humor and sensitivity, the writer grapples with important cultural themes. His characters live and breathe, places become real, tradition is revealed and you may never feel the same way about the south again.

An astonishing debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister—and who must learn what it means to fight for those she loves when all the odds are stacked against her. Dolores and Mita grow up in rural Brazil, identical and inseparable. But Mita develops a...

Mat nimmt Ben zu einem Wochenende für Erwachsene nach Tijuana mit, um seinem Freund über seine kürzliche Trennung hinwegzuhelfen. Was er nicht weiß, ist, dass Ben vorhat, ihn zu verlassen und sich ein mexikanisches T-Girl zu suchen, um sich mit ihm zu vergnügen!

Steve wollte schon immer den Carinval in Rio besuchen, um sich die unglaublich heißen brasilianischen Frauen anzusehen. Als er keinen seiner Freunde überreden kann, ihn zu begleiten, reist er allein, fest entschlossen, sich so viel Spaß wie möglich zu verschaffen. Er trifft Adriana, die ihm anbietet, ihn zu einer geheimen Show mitzunehmen, die zu schön klingt, um wahr zu sein.

Ryan mete la pata en el trabajo y le envían a Brasil para arreglar su error. Está disgustado porque podría perderse acostarse con la nueva chica con la que ha estado flirteando. Sin embargo, su jefe le indica que en la playa de Copacabana hay un montón de chicas guapas que ver, y Ryan viaja a Brasil con la esperanza de poder hacer algo más que trabajar allí.

Ryan hat bei der Arbeit Mist gebaut und wird nach Brasilien geschickt, um seinen Fehler zu beheben. Er ist verärgert, dass er es verpassen könnte, mit dem neuen Mädchen zu schlafen, mit dem er geflirtet hat. Sein Chef weist ihn jedoch darauf hin, dass es am Copacabana Beach jede Menge heißer Mädels zu sehen gibt, und Ryan reist in der Hoffnung nach Brasilien, dass er dort mehr als nur arbeiten kann!

Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed's bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted. Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save.

Gray finds himself torn between anguish and ecstasy when another Lalia-sitting assignment is placed in his hands; he's asked to hinder Malcolm's advances and subdue the paparazzi, while wrestling with his smoldering desire to get Laila in his bed. Will this assignment cause him to disclose feelings that may sever their friendship and jeopardize his career?

Edward Jennings travels from the Eastern battlefields of the Civil War to turbulent New Mexico Territory's Tularosa Basin in his quest for a fresh start! This land of sun-blasted desert is empty for a reason. Harsh nature, wild Indians, and desperate refugees are only a few of the obstacles in his way!

El intenso relato del regreso clandestino del director de cine Miguel Littín a Chile, su patria.

Decision time is quickly approaching. Marshall Ben Corrigan is nearing retirement from a long, rewarding career as a roving law officer in the Northeast New Mexico territory circa 1886. Moving into the unknown and uncertain realm of retirement has little appeal to him. His romantic interest, widow Rachel Langford, wants him to turn in his badge and settle down with her. Even though he finds it tempting, he still has misgivings which are not all related to leaving his profession.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America. Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900—a time when many Americans were looking for signs...

Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of drawing and swimming. He takes great pains to care for his depressive father, Mohan Lal, an immigrant who finds solace in the hateful Hindu fundamentalism of his homeland and cheers on Indian fanatics who murder innocent Muslims.

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana. The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and...

This program is read by the author. In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth...

“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in...

In 1948, Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her. But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember.

General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins, and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead - by nature a politician - demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack - by inclination a rover - looks to forge his own path. When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute....