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Oct 2024
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Are These the Best Books from Latin Amer...

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Two years ago I decided that I hadn't read enough books from countries outside of the US, so I embarked on a journey of reading one book from every country. The journey has been slow as I am not solely focusing on this project. I've made some great progress in Europe and Asia, but Latin America has been a bit of a weak spot for me. Andy has read a few more books from the South American region, so today we are discussing some of the works we've read from these countries, what we think of them. Books mentioned in this episode Against the day Thomas Pynchon https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Lonesome dove Larry McMurtry https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439... The invented part Rodrigo Fresan https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940... Melville Rodrigo Fresan https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960... Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316... Human Acts Han Kang https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781101... Septology Jon Fosse https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781945... Enter the Aardvark Jessica Anthony https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316... Troll Dave Fitzgerald https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952... Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140... The Jewish Son Daniel Guebel https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644... The Seven Madmen and the Flamethrowers Roberto Arlt https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590... Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399... Prisoner without a name cell without a number Jacobo Timerman https://amzn.to/4fj2Vhf The Absolute Daniel Guebel https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644... Gessel Dome Guillermo Saccomanno https://amzn.to/48kJNNC Beka Lamb On heros lizards and passion Zoil A Ellis https://amzn.to/3NJdcYc When Rains became floods Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780822... Affections Rodrigo Hasbun https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781501... Juan de la Rosa Nataniel Aguirre https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780195... The posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... The taker and other stories Rubem Fonesca https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934... The Alchemist Paulo Coelho https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062... By night in Chile Roberto Bolaño https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250... Antwerp Roberto Bolaño https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250... The savage detectives Roberto Bolaño https://amzn.to/40fmVxb 2666 Roberto Bolaño https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312... The obscene bird of night Jose Donoso https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811... One Hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060... Love in the time of cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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