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  • Cover image of book Witches by Brenda Lozano
    Witches - by Brenda Lozano

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529412239 | ISBN 10: 1529412234

    A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.  ‘You can’t really know another woman until you know yourself.’  Weaving together two parallel narratives, ... more

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  • Cover image of book there are more things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
    there are more things - by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349726724 | ISBN 10: 0349726728

    Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize & the Orwell Prize for Fiction   A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year  ‘a serious accomplishment‘ Sunday Times ‘vivid and expansive‘ Sophie Mackintosh ‘a lyrical celebration‘ TLS ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
    Our Share of Night - by Mariana Enriquez

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783788224 | ISBN 10: 1783788224

    Translated by Megan McDowell  His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.  Gaspar is six years old when the Ord ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529418019 | ISBN 10: 1529418011

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.  ‘ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violeta by Isabel Allende
    Violeta - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648365 | ISBN 10: 1526648369

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE   'Epic, beautifully crafted... Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek
    Salt Crystals - by Cristina Bendek

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913867331 | ISBN 10: 1913867331

    Translated by Robin Myers  San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab trade ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Queens Of Sarmiento Park by Camila Sosa Villada
    The Queens Of Sarmiento Park - by Camila Sosa Villada

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349016450 | ISBN 10: 0349016453

    Auntie Encarna's is the queerest boarding house in the world. For Camila, it is a refuge, and the raggle-taggle band of queens who gather there are like family. At night they dress up and head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money.  They stand toge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moldy Strawberries: Stories by Caio Fernando Abreu
    Moldy Strawberries: Stories - by Caio Fernando Abreu

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781953861207 | ISBN 10: 1953861202

    Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato   In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the ’80s.  Suspended between fear and longin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn
    The Dust Never Settles - by Karina Lickorish Quinn

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861540440 | ISBN 10: 0861540441

    ‘I have seen ghosts. They will not rest. The whispers of the past are all around...’  Sweeping from the bustling beaches of contemporary Lima to local ceviche bars crammed with fishermen, music and folklore; from the rise and fall of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anthill by Julianne Pachico
    The Anthill - by Julianne Pachico

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571331499 | ISBN 10: 0571331491

    The propulsive debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today – a searing and affecting depiction of what redemption can be for a person and for a country in the wake of trauma.   Lina returns to Colombia after twent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
    Faces in the Crowd - by Valeria Luiselli

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787630 | ISBN 10: 1783787635

    Translated by Christina MacSweeney.   In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Absolute by Daniel Guebel
    The Absolute - by Daniel Guebel

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838415921 | ISBN 10: 1838415920

    Translated by Jessica Sequeira  Called a "masterpiece" and the author a "genius," this English-language debut of one of Argentina’s best writers is the story of a family of artists, scientists, and politicians who are responsible for the grea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel
    Hades, Argentina - by Daniel Loedel

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349994093 | ISBN 10: 0349994099

    ‘An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt’ Colm Tóibín  ‘Remarkable... It will stay with me for a very long time’ Kamila Shamsie   A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
    The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - by Mariana Enriquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783788217 | ISBN 10: 1783788216

    "Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train"(Dave Eggers) Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murdero ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Mexican Gothic - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529402681 | ISBN 10: 1529402689

    He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.  When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it’s clear something is ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Petal Of The Sea by Isabel Allende
    A Long Petal Of The Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526615947 | ISBN 10: 1526615940

    'September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.  Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
    Hurricane Season - by Fernanda Melchor

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913097097 | ISBN 10: 1913097099

    The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred.  As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez
    Slash and Burn - by Claudia Hernandez

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911508823 | ISBN 10: 1911508822

    Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe.  Like peasants through the ages, she desperately slashes and burns in order to make a place for her children to return to. A country girl sees her village sacked and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann
    Call Him Mine - by Tim MacGabhann

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474610469 | ISBN 10: 1474610463

    A TELEGRAPH THRILLER OF THE YEAR  Nobody asked us to look. Every day, every since, I still wish we hadn’t.  Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of sifting the dregs of Mexico’s drug war: from ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
    The Shape of the Ruins - by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857056610 | ISBN 10: 0857056611

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019.   It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations – the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez’s General B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
    Things We Lost in the Fire - by Mariana Enríquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846276361 | ISBN 10: 1846276365

    Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic.   A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavemen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Madness is Better than Defeat by Ned Beauman
    Madness is Better than Defeat - by Ned Beauman

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473613614 | ISBN 10: 1473613612

    The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman.  In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on l ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
    In the Midst of Winter - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471166907 | ISBN 10: 1471166902

    New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds.   Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance by Julián Fuks
    Resistance - by Julián Fuks

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999859329 | ISBN 10: 1999859324

    Translated by Daniel Hahn   ‘My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categoric ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
    The Bedlam Stacks - by Natasha Pulley

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408878477 | ISBN 10: 140887847x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE'S ENCORE AWARD 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018   'A sheer fantastical delight' The Times 'Epic' New York Times 'An immense treat' Observer Books of the Year 'A fast-paced adve ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction by Orsola Casagrande (Editor)
    The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction - by Orsola Casagrande (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910974018 | ISBN 10: 1910974013

    Featuring Daniel Chavarria, Irina J. Davidenko, Eduardo del Llano, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes, Francisco López Sacha & Eduardo Angel Santiesteban   When a his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bogota 39: New Voices from Latin America by Various authors
    Bogota 39: New Voices from Latin America - by Various authors

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073334 | ISBN 10: 1786073331

    An anthology of short stories by thirty-nine of the best Latin American writers under forty, from fifteen countries. The featured authors are: Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Frank Báez, Natalia Borges Polesso, Giuseppe Caputo, Juan Cárdenas, Mauro Javier ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
    Flesh and Bone and Water - by Luiza Sauma

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241978146 | ISBN 10: 0241978149

    Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about.   The letter prompts And ... more

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  • Cover image of book Octavio
    Octavio's Journey - by Miguel Bonnefoy

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910477311 | ISBN 10: 1910477311

    A compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition.   “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he was one of those me ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rio Noir by Tony Bellotto (Editor)
    Rio Noir - by Tony Bellotto (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753121 | ISBN 10: 1617753122

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.   Brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Seamstress and the Wind by Csar Aira
    The Seamstress and the Wind - by Csar Aira

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908276841 | ISBN 10: 1908276843

    "Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop."(Roberto Bolao) In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chas ... more

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  • Cover image of book The All Saints
    The All Saints' Day Lovers - by Juan Gabriel Vsquez, translated by Anne McLean

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408860434 | ISBN 10: 1408860430

    A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murd ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of Sandalwood by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir
    Traces of Sandalwood - by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789462380578 | ISBN 10: 9462380570

    Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesnt remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Discreet Hero - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571310746 | ISBN 10: 0571310745

    Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets suc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neuland by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston
    Neuland - by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099578550 | ISBN 10: 0099578557

    Doris father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel.  Inbar is escaping f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ismael and His Sisters by Louise Stern
    Ismael and His Sisters - by Louise Stern

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089465 | ISBN 10: 1847089461

    Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate in sign language, forming a tightly-knit community with an unsophisticated, simple lifestyle. But when Ismael gets into a figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feast of the Innocents by Evelio Rosero
    Feast of the Innocents - by Evelio Rosero

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848662322 | ISBN 10: 1848662327

    A beguiling, surreal and controversial novel by Colombia's greatest writer since Gabriel Garca Mrquez.  Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lpez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero
    The Neruda Case - by Roberto Ampuero

    £12.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780285643123 | ISBN 10: 0285643126

    In 1970s Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve.   He recruits Cayetano Brul, a young Cuban rogue, as his own pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leonora: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Leonora Carrington by Elena Poniatowska
    Leonora: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Leonora Carrington - by Elena Poniatowska

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846688553 | ISBN 10: 1846688558

    A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington, a great Surrealist painter utterly possessed by her art, Leonora is The Girl with the Pearl Earring meets Patrick White's The Vivisector. Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
    The Secret of Evil - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780330510660 | ISBN 10: 0330510665

    Roberto Bolao confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003.   A North Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mexico 20: New Voices, Old Traditions by Various authors
    Mexico 20: New Voices, Old Traditions - by Various authors

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782271345 | ISBN 10: 1782271341

    To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK in Mexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conaculta have joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age of forty, paired with twenty British translator ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
    Signs Preceding the End of the World - by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908276421 | ISBN 10: 1908276428

    Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
    Prayers for the Stolen - by Jennifer Clement

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099587590 | ISBN 10: 0099587599

    It was Paulas mother who had the brilliant idea of digging the holes. My mother said that the State of Guerrero was turning into a rabbit warren with young girls hiding all over the place...  Now we make you ugly, my mother said. The best t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
    The General in His Labyrinth - by Gabriel García Márquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241968727 | ISBN 10: 0241968720

    The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón Bolívar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liveforever by Andrs Caicedo
    Liveforever - by Andrs Caicedo

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141196688 | ISBN 10: 0141196688

    Andrs Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.   Mara del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pig
    Pig's Foot - by Carlos Acosta, translated by Frank Wynne

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408833728 | ISBN 10: 1408833727

    Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. H ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
    The Man Who Loved Dogs - by Leonardo Padura

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908524447 | ISBN 10: 1908524448

    Cuban writer Ivn Crdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him the man who loved dogs. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramn Mercade ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maya
    Maya's Notebook - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007482856 | ISBN 10: 000748285x

    The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
    Woes of the True Policeman - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447233305 | ISBN 10: 1447233301

    Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor scar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa a Mexican city close to the US border.  In this sprawling town, where women are being killed in staggering numbers, Amalfitano begins an a ... more

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  • Cover image of book La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine, translated by Megan McDowell
    La Vida Doble: A Novel - by Arturo Fontaine, translated by Megan McDowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205763 | ISBN 10: 0300205767

    Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, with ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
    The Blue Hour - by Alonso Cueto

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099533092 | ISBN 10: 009953309x

    Adrin Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Limas wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers a letter amongst her possessions making shocking cl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
    Down the Rabbit Hole - by Juan Pablo Villalobos

    £6.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908276285 | ISBN 10: 1908276282

    Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
    The Sound of Things Falling - by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831618 | ISBN 10: 1408831619

    No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarke ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Dogs are Blue by Rodrigo de Souza Leo
    All Dogs are Blue - by Rodrigo de Souza Leo

    £10.00   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908276209 | ISBN 10: 1908276207

    One of the most original and comic voices to come out of Brazil Souza Leo orchestrates a carnival among the mad. All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de Janeiro insane asylum. Our narrator is upset by his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
    Ways of Going Home - by Alejandro Zambra

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847086273 | ISBN 10: 1847086276

    A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime.   Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Dream of the Celt - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753

    As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book Purgatory by Tomas Eloy Martinez
    Purgatory - by Tomas Eloy Martinez

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822029 | ISBN 10: 1408822024

    Simin Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simin had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina's military regime, executed for being a 'subversive'; ye ... more

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  • Cover image of book Far South by David Enrique Spellman
    Far South - by David Enrique Spellman

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846688102 | ISBN 10: 1846688108

    Far South is no ordinary novel - but this is no ordinary disappearance... Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help? Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists' colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey
    Down the Rabbit Hole - by Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908276001 | ISBN 10: 1908276002

    Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
    The House of the Spirits - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099528562 | ISBN 10: 0099528568

    Allendes magical realist epic is an international classic - thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power' (El Pais)   As a girl, Clara del Valle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sweet Money by Ernesto Mallo
    Sweet Money - by Ernesto Mallo

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738732 | ISBN 10: 1904738737

    Superintendent Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires Chief of Police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the Chief of Police is murdered Lascano becomes the Apostles next target. His only way out of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Doa Nicanora
    Doa Nicanora's Hat Shop - by Kirstan Hawkins

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099537571 | ISBN 10: 0099537575

    Surrounded by forest and reached only by a treacherous road, the sleepy South American town of Valle de la Virgen is almost unknown to the outside world. But after a silent stranger rolls in on the back of a pick-up truck, nothing is the same again.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
    The Invisible Mountain - by Carolina De Robertis

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007302833 | ISBN 10: 0007302835

    The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again.  As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara ... more

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  • Cover image of book Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar
    Needle in a Haystack - by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904738565 | ISBN 10: 1904738567

    Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Armies by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean
    The Armies - by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906694777 | ISBN 10: 190669477x

    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.  In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eating Air by Pauline Melville
    Eating Air - by Pauline Melville

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590818 | ISBN 10: 1846590817

    An attraction to danger prompts Ella de Vries, a stunning obsidian-eyed beauty who dances with the Royal Ballet, to fall in love with Donny McLeod, the Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who 'believes in nothing'. It is the 1970s. They move into a house ... more

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  • Cover image of book 2666 by Roberto Bolano
    2666 - by Roberto Bolano

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330447430 | ISBN 10: 0330447432

    One of the most talked-about novels of 2008: the visionary epic from a Latin American genius.  Written with burning intesity in the last years of Roberto Bolaos life, 2666 has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
    Distant Star - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099461722 | ISBN 10: 0099461722

    An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After ... more

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  • Cover image of book By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
    By Night in Chile - by Roberto Bolano

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099459392 | ISBN 10: 0099459396

    During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)
    The Informers - by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean)

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596516 | ISBN 10: 0747596514

    When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brida by Paulo Coelho
    Brida - by Paulo Coelho

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007274451 | ISBN 10: 0007274459

    This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
    The Lizard Cage - by Karen Connelly

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099502470 | ISBN 10: 009950247x

    Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off from his fami ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
    The Witch of Portobello - by Paulo Coelho

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007251872 | ISBN 10: 0007251874

    Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141189208 | ISBN 10: 0141189207

    Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence, since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. �But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, ni ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tale of a Certain Orient by Milton Hatoum
    Tale of a Certain Orient - by Milton Hatoum

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747569077 | ISBN 10: 074756907x

    When Emilie, the matriarch of a large and unruly family of Lebanese emigrants, is on her deathbed, her granddaughter must return to Manaus and her childhood home to say goodbye. Here, in the heart of the Amazon, she becomes enveloped in memories, as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moldavian Pimp by Edgardo Cozarinsky
    The Moldavian Pimp - by Edgardo Cozarinsky

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099483755 | ISBN 10: 0099483750

    In a bar in the Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Crespo, our narrator recalls his encounters with an old man of Lithuanian descent, Samuel Warschauer, whom he came to know shortly before the man died.  Among his papers, he found the script of a curi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco
    Rosario Tijeras - by Jorge Franco

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781583226780 | ISBN 10: 1583226788

    Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman and two high-society youths in 1980s Medellin, Colombia, won the Dashiell Hammett prize in 2000."With Jorge Franco's narco-saga Rosario Tijeras [Latin America's literary mov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections by Paulo Coelho
    Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections - by Paulo Coelho

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007235803 | ISBN 10: 0007235801

    Like the Flowing River is an intimate collection of Paulo Coelho's reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005. These are powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choice, of love lost and found. Sometimes humorous, sometimes s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Eagle
    The Eagle's Throne - by Carlos Fuentes

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747579373 | ISBN 10: 0747579377

    The year is 2020. In a fit of ill-advised independence, the Mexican President has incurred the double wrath of the United States by calling for the removal of US troops from Colombia and demanding higher prices for Mexico's oil. Unfortunately for him ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
    The Alchemist - by Paulo Coelho

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780722532935 | ISBN 10: 0722532938

    Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers for ever. Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist is such a book. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 61 languages, The Alchemist has already achieved the sta ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of God by Paulo Lins
    City of God - by Paulo Lins

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747576808 | ISBN 10: 0747576807

    Based on a true story, this is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. It is the original novel on which the Oscar-nominated film was based.Cicade de Deus, the City of God... Welcome to one of Rio's most ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
    Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon - by Jorge Amado

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747573715 | ISBN 10: 0747573719

    When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilheus, things would never be the same again... In 1925, the town's cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns. However, Nacib the Arab is desperately worried as his cook has walked out of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
    Forest of the Pygmies - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007199648 | ISBN 10: 0007199643

    From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Palaces by Abilio Estevez
    Distant Palaces - by Abilio Estevez

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099468660 | ISBN 10: 0099468662

    Abilio Estevez conjures up the melancholy beauty of contemporary Havana with passion and eloquence in this story about a trio of misfits.  When Victorio learns that his home is about to be demolished he leaves his job, burns his possessions and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
    Eleven Minutes - by Paulo Coelho

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007166046 | ISBN 10: 0007166044

    'Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer...' So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, but the glittering life she hoped for was ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name is Light by Elsa Osorio
    My Name is Light - by Elsa Osorio

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780747561613 | ISBN 10: 0747561613

    Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new-born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido', one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally disa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inez by Carlos Fuentes
    Inez - by Carlos Fuentes

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780747568162 | ISBN 10: 0747568162

    Ninety-three-year-old Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara is a world-famous conductor who has given his life to music. On the eve of what may be his last public performance, he is stirred to reminisce about his past and his great love, the flame-haired Mexican div ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
    City of the Beasts - by Isabel Allende

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780007146376 | ISBN 10: 000714637x

    With his mother in hospital, Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende
    The Infinite Plan - by Isabel Allende

    £11.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780006546849 | ISBN 10: 0006546846

    This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
    Under the Volcano - by Malcolm Lowry

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141182254 | ISBN 10: 0141182253

    It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing.  In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets. Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liqu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ventriloquist
    The Ventriloquist's Tale - by Pauline Melville

    £12.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780747535140 | ISBN 10: 0747535140

    Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1997. Orange Prize Shortlist 1998. With relish and consumate skill, Pauline Melville conjures vivid pictures of both savannah, forest and city life in South America, where love is often trumped by desir ... more

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