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by: Isabel Allende. There is something about reading suggestive material that awakens the senses--too often ignored in the fray of modern life--and fires the imagination. In this cookbook, Allende has put together an apothecary of aphrodisiacs, from snake's blood and rhinoceros horn to the more commonplace and more palatable oysters. Aphrodite is a long, savory, enthralling ode to sensuality.
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by Mario Vargas Llosa (Perú)
Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community.
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by: Jon Lee Anderson
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) was many
things to many people: an exemplary human, a hero, a tyrant, a fanatic. In Jon Anderson's thoroughgoing biography, he emerges as all of these and more. He was, Anderson writes, a brilliant revoluntionary tactician and warrior. He was also so hardened a Communist that Fidel Castro kept him out of public view after the Cuban Revolutions because he did not want to alienate anti-communist allies like the United States. Drawing on declassified U.S. and Soviet documents, Anderson proves beyond a doubt that Guevara was captured and executed by Bolivian counterinsurgency rangers, and not, as the official story went, killed in a firefight while armed to the teeth.
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by: Gabriel García Márquez
When the wealthy Bayardo San Roman appeared in a small Caribbean town, he had no trouble finding a wife. But the young woman he chose was not as innocent as she seemed. Ties in to the major motion picture scheduled for release in April, starring Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti and Irene Pappas.
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by: Isabel Allende. Allende continues to cast the spell of magic realism from her critically acclaimed novel Eva Luna with this collection of short stories.
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by: Isabel Allende. A story about life under military rule in Chile and the strength of those who dare to resist it.
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by: Mario Vargas Llosa (Perú)
In an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances points to the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Llosa, author of In Praise of the Stepmother, offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society--from recent political violence to social upheaval.
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by: Nwanna Gladson I., Ph.D.
South America
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by: Paulo Coelho (Brazil). An Andalusian shepherd boy dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. He leaves Spain to go off in pursuit of the treasure and learns many life lessons along the way.
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by: Gabriel García Marquez (Colombia)
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, a story of unrequited love by the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished and wealthy husband, and Florentino Ariza, the man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
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by: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Fantasy stories from the complex mind of Borges, one of the world's most widely read authors, and the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer.
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by: Luis Sepulveda
Full Circle invites us to accompany Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda on "a journey without a fixed itinerary." Whatever his subject--brutalities suffered under Pinochet's dictatorship, sleepy tropical towns visited in exile, or the landscapes of legendary Patagonia--Sepulveda is an unflinchingly honest yet lyrical storyteller. Part autobiography, part travel memoir, Full Circle brings us the distinctive voice of one of South America's most compelling writers.
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by: Julio Cortázar (Argentina)
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by: Isabel Allende (Chile)
Here is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
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by: Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library.
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by: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The story of a remarkable road journey in the words of a 23-year-old medical student (later, a revolutionary) known as "Che". There are fights, parties, and serious drinking. There are also moving examples of Guevara's idealism and solidarity with the oppressed throughout his journey in South America.
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by: Gabriel García Márquez
The Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude probes the 1990 kidnapping of journalists in Colombia by Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin drug cartel.
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by: Gabriel García Márquez
A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction--set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Colombia. This Spanish language edition is the first, and currently the only, U.S. publication of Nobel Prize-winner Marquez's powerful new novel.
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by: Gabriel García Márquez
A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Following the family portrayed here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature.
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by: Isabel Allende
Written next to the hospital bedside of her critically ill daughter, the acclaimed author of The House of the Spirits presents the story of her ancestors and youth, reflecting on the challenges and achievements of one family during a turbulent era in Chilean history.
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by: Alma Guillermoprieto
An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.
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by: Isabel Allende
Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a mesmerizing, poignant saga of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect.
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by: Paul Theroux
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina. Paul Theroux is widely considered one of the great travelogue writers of our time. Enjoy his poignant observations and laugh at his adventures before taking off for your own!
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by: Pablo Neruda (Chile)
A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago, this superb translation and richly colored illustrations bring the poems of this classic volume vividly to life. Full color.
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