Latin American Fiction

Dictators, exile, and cities arguing with their own history. Fiction from Latin America, from the Boom to the present — a literature that has always treated politics as a family matter.

On the Place & Period shelf.

Books shelved as Latin American Fiction

• Continuidad de los parques por Julio Cortz̀ar — Cintia Musina
• The Secret Life of Insects — Bernardo Esquinca
• Las Hijas Del Volcán ( Novela) / the Volcano Daughters (a Novel) — Gina María Balibrera
• Of Cattle and Men — Ana Paula Maia
• El valle del silicio — Carla Nyman
• La cabeza de mi padre — Alma Delia Murillo
• Pink Slime — Fernanda Trías
• Where There Was Fire: A Novel — John Manuel Arias
• Recollections of Things to Come — Elena Garro
• Fresh Dirt from the Grave — Giovanna Rivero
• Algún día te mostraré el desierto: Diario de paternidad — Renato Cisneros
• Beginning Middle End: A Novel — Valeria Luiselli
• Nada que hacer, Monsieur Baruch y otros relatos — Julio Ramón Ribeyro
• Las ruinas circulares — Jorge Luis Borges
• La ceremonia esperada — Tomás Borge
• Volverán como fuego — Ayesha L. Rubio
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold — Gabriel García Márquez
• Witches — Brenda Lozano
• La esposa de cera y otros relatos — Ángela Becerra
• Human Sacrifices — María Fernanda Ampuero
• The Eye of Goliath — Diego Muzzio
• Marciano — Nona Fernández
• A la deriva y otros cuentos — Horacio Quiroga
• Conversacion Al Sur — Marta Traba

Related genres

• Historical Fiction
• International Fiction
• American Literature
• East Asian Literary Fiction
• Irish Literature
• French Literature
• Southern Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Spanish Literature
• Japanese Literature
• Chicano & Latinx Fiction
• Western
• Mexican Literature
• Italian Literature
• African American Literature
• Medieval
• Russian Literature
• Appalachian
• Scottish Literature
• Korean Literature
• Canadian Literature
• Caribbean Literature

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