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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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 Bolaño’s life, 2666 has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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