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"The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich--they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind--Paris. There he assembles his team of con artists for their final and most ambitious theft, one that will...
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A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, Target in the Night is an intense and tragic family history reminiscent of King Lear, in which the madness of the detective is integral to solving crimes. Target in the Night, a masterpiece, won every major literary prize in the Spanish language in 2011.
Tony Duran, a mysterious foreigner born in Puerto Rico and educated in New Jersey, is murdered in a village...
43) Florentina
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"Aparece Florentina", así empieza esta novela de Eduardo Muslip que se concentra en el recuerdo vívido de una abuela. Florentina aparece en un cuarto, pero está en una sala de estar.
Su sola presencia le impone al narrador esta novela. Retrato e hilvanado relato, Florentina es una muestra de la destreza con la que Muslip se entrena en el ejercicio de la narrativa: la abuela, el recuerdo de Galicia, el anticlericalismo, la alimentación, el mundo...
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"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
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Esta es la obra más representativa de Horacio Quiroga. En estos relatos, Quiroga se maneja con absoluta maestría en el terreno de la narración de terror (no en vano se lo compara con Poe y Maupassant, como se puede apreciar al leer historias tan estremecedoras como "La gallina degollada"), y nos ofrece uno de los máximos exponentes del modernismo latinoamericano. Es, también, la obra más personal de alguien cuya trágica existencia estuvo marcada...
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Autumn 1943. American agent David Spaulding is among the global espionage elite who have converged on Buenos Aires. His top-secret mission can bring World War II to an explosive end. But what happens in this city of assassins, betrayals, and sensual encounters is the most sinister and terrifying deal ever made between two nations. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist...
48) 77
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"Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare...
49) No es un río
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Trilogía de varones volume 3
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Ubicada en la Argentina rural, No es un río indaga en la crueldad y la violencia del universo masculino a través de los pactos y las alianzas secretas entre hombres. Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beben y cocinan y hablan y bailan, lidian con los fantasmas del pasado y con los del presente, que se confunden en el ánimo alterado por el vino y el sopor. Una red mezcla realidad y sueño,...
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La calma de un pueblo patagónico se rompe cuando uno de sus vecinos aparece muerto y torturado en su sofá.Para la criminalista Laura Badía, este es el caso de su vida: además de la brutalidad del asesinato, de la casa de la víctima faltan trece puntas de flecha talladas hace miles de años por el pueblo tehuelche. La colección, de la que todos hablan pero casi nadie ha visto, contiene la respuesta a uno de los misterios arqueológicos más importantes...
51) All my goodbyes
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A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the horrific murders that haunt her story.
52) Show no mercy
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Black Ops Inc. (Cindy Gerard) volume 1
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Leaving the CIA to take a job with Black Ops, Inc., a private security and intelligence firm specializing in jobs the military and CIA will not touch, Gabriel Jones becomes involved with American journalist Jenna McMillan when she accidentally becomes caught in the middle of an assassination plot Gabriel is trying to foil in Buenos Aires.
53) Fracture
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"In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an aging survivor of the atom bomb confronts his memories"--
Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories. He's spent decades traveling the world, making a life in different languages, only to find himself home again, living in Tokyo in his old age. On the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Watanabe, like...
54) Nothing but dust
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By the time Rafael is born, the family farm has already gone to hell. Rafael's father has abandoned them. His older brothers, the twins Mauro and Joaquin, blame Rafael for their father's departure and exact revenge on their baby brother. Steban, his other sibling, is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change with the shifting winds. Ruling over this dysfunctional roost is a tyrannical and avaricious mother. On the lonely Patagonian steppe,...
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"In this novel, the tale of Dolores Rivas, begins in an orphanage in 1950s Buenos Aires. A wounded girl, she becomes convinced that her mother is the child mistress of ex-President Juan Perón. Epitaph for Sorrows builds on the true-life affair of Perón and fourteen-year-old Nelly Rivas, a scandal contributing to Perón's overthrow. Dolores fashions a meticulous journal to record her life, entrusting it to a prominent journalist. At great risk, he...
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"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for...
57) Fate
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"This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines. Karl and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son, Simon. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina's national orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she meets fellow...
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Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before.