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The Peruvian laureate's last novel, in which a journalist witnesses an ecstatic guitar performance of the vals criolla by a tubercular young virtuoso. Idealism soon plunges into obsession an... read more

I Give You My Silence

Mario Vargas Llosa

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An account of that strange, resilient, deprived island-nation, isolated by ideology and sanctions. Tennant has known Cuba for twenty years.

Mrs Gargantua: Reports from Cuba

J.S. Tennant

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The Polish writer arrived in Buenos Aires with a delegation on the cusp of WW2, and did not rejoin his ship to return to Poland. This slim book recounts his long exile and bohemian life in A... read more

Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina ...

Mercedes Halfon

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Ducuments the interior of this jewel that is wholly in sync with its creator. By the great-nieces who lived in the house in Mexico City all their lives.

Casa Kahlo: Frida Kahlo’s Home and Sanctuary

Mara Romeo Kahlo

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For the big exhibition at Tate Modern. (There is also a paperback edition of this catalogue.)

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Mari Carmen Ramirez

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For the big exhibition at Tate Modern. (There is also hardback edition of this catalogue.)

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Mari Carmen Ramirez

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Chiquitita

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

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Eden’s Shore

Oisín Fagan

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Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts o ...

Julian Sancton

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As chief of the FT bureau on Latin America for 20 years, RL has followed the extraordinary, twisting career of Brazil's president for over two decades.

Lula! The Man, The Myth and a Dream of Latin America ...

Richard Lapper

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The three stories that make up up this century-spanning novel are all set in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. By the acclaimed author of You Dreamed of Empires, and translate... read more

Now I Surrender

Alvaro Enrigue

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Historic as well as contemporary work from all over the world, with a particular interest in their cultural narratives. Large format, wonderfully illustrated and scholarly.

Threads of Time: A Cultural Journey: Textiles from Around the World ...

Daniel Brewster

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Relates the role of William Miller, son of a Kent baker who fought in the Peninsular War, commanded Cochrane's marines in the Pacific and became the only foreign general instrumental in the ... read more

English Liberator: The Struggle for Independence in Spanish South Amer ...

John Hemming

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The latest in this excellent series on regional/national mythologies from Thames & Hudson.

The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors ...

Mallory Matsumoto

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Brilliant evocations of vast spaces, isolation, nondescript places and disjointed ways of life, by a native of Patagonia. Published in Spanish in 2005, this is its first English translation.

False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia ...

Maria Sonia Cristoff

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Wool barons, pirates and Pole-seekers in South Georgia, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay: kaleidoscopic.

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South Ame ...

Shafik Meghji

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7/20 of a limited edition of twenty, in a black cloth slip-case. Beautifully bound with bold cover artwork in sumptuous colours. Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the A... read more

Canto Llano: Encounters in a Flowering Paradise

Helen Cowcher

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Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Piñero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has ... read more

Canto Llano: Encounters in a Flowering Paradise

Helen Cowcher

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A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more

America, America: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

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In the concluding part of his trilogy about Nazi war criminals and the law, Sands turns to Pinochet, Chile's Disappeared and a former SS officer.

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Pata ...

Philippe Sands

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Growing up in C19th San Francisco, Emilia returns to Chile to report on the civil war and to discover her father.

My Name is Emilia del Valle

Isabel Allende

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Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more

Black Earth Rising

Ekow Eshun

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This Carrolian pursuit of realms beyond the modern borders - lost utopias, Amazonian city-states, alternative narratives - is as much an intellectual journey as it is physical.

Patria: Lost Countries of South America

Laurence Blair

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From Central America to Tierra del Fuego in the mid-1970s, by whatever means possible. Drawing on her letters and diaries of the time, Stewart writes engagingly about her adventures and the ... read more

A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America ...

Sara Stewart

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The great C19th Brazilian writer is being introduced again to an English readership in a series of new translations by Javier Marias's superb translator. De Assis feels modern, funny and shr... read more

Quincas Borba: A Novel

Machado de Assis

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Responses to various ethnographic documents in the British Museum by six writers, including Philippe Sands and Juan Gabriel Vasquez.

Explorers Dreamers and Thieves: Latin American Writers in the British ...

Carolina Orloff

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Lonely Planet South America: Detailed Itineraries | Travel Like a Loca ...

Lonely Planet

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Latitude: The astonishing adventure that shaped the world ...

Nicholas Crane

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Every summer a married woman travels to the same place on holiday and takes a new lover - for one night only. A late and previously unpublished novel.

Until August

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Glamorous pictures of the iconic Brazilian hotel, patronised by the author's family since it opened in 1923. Matteoli has included many anecdotes of former days.

Copacabana Palace: Where Rio Starts

Francisca Matteoli

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The history and folklore of Peru told in a series of photo essays. Very large format.

Peru

Mariano Vivanco

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A 1992 version of this superb C19th Brazilian domestic drama got into the Evening Standard bestseller list thanks to Sandoe's...

Dom Casmurro: A Novel

Machado de Assis

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In two volumes: the photographs in part 1 were taken in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. Those in part 2 were taken at a sanctuary in Bolivia in 2022. (Each volume is available individually,... read more

Nick Brandt: The Day May Break: 2 volume set

Nadine Barth

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This book of seven essays describes the Nobel laureate's intellectual journey from the "Marxism and Sartrean existentialism of my youth to the liberalism of my mature years." Adam Smith, Hay... read more

The Call of the Tribe: Essays

Mario Vargas Llosa

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AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more

The Private Lives of Trees

Alejandro Zambra

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The writer's personal history interwoven with Chile's past, especially the Pinochet era and its extrajudicial killings.

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Nona Fernandez

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