Books from Colombia
Recommended books (13)
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around South America Challenge" were written by authors from Colombia.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
1.
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Rating: 4 13 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin ... continue
2.
Abyss by Pilar Quintana EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines, tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia's head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart.... continue
3.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Rating: 4 4 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understoo... continue
4.
Doce cuentos peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Rating: 4 8 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
These stories are all about Latin Americans living in Europe; a view of various immigrant lives.
Genre
Recommended: 30 Apr 2023
5.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"No One Writes to the Colonel" is a portrait of old age, that period when physical decay conflicts with still-alert mental pride. Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
6.
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Rating: 5 2 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá. But threats of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the walls, where drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities When their mother hires a live-in maid from the city's guerilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona, whose unusual behavior belies more than shyness."--Back cover.
7.
In The Beginning Was The Sea by Tomás González EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The young intellectuals J. and Elena leave behind their comfortable lives, the parties and the money in Medellin to settle down on a remote island. Their plan is to lead the good life, self-sufficient and close to nature. But from the very start, each day brings small defeats and imperceptible dramas, which gradually turn paradise into hell, as their surroundings inexorably claim back every inch of the 'civilisation' they brought with them. Based on a true story, 'In the Beginning Was the Sea' is a dramatic and searingly ironic account of the disastrous encounter of intellectual struggle with ... continue
Genre
Recommended: 24 Jan 2023
8.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez EN
Rating: 4 5 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first decla... continue
9.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN
Rating: 4 4 Votes
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
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Set in COLOMBIA
Recommended: 16 Nov 2022
10.
Song of the Flies : An Account of the Events by Maria Mercedes Carranza EN
0 Ratings
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Canto de las Moscas (Song of the Flies), by the late Colombian poet María Mercedes Carranza, was published for the first time in 1997, following a decade marked by extremely high levels of violence in Colombia. At this point the country had already endured nearly half a century of armed struggle between government and rebel groups, and had more recently experienced the emergence of paramilitary forces and warring drug lords. Carranza wrote these twenty-four poems, each bearing the name of a town or city that had been the site of large-scale violence, as a sort of chronicle and commemoration of... continue
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