Literary Latin America

Memory. It tells the story of our past, and frames our present. This collection of poems intertwines early childhood memories of Chile with immigration and integration in America.

With their theatre director father inexplicably detained, young Cuban lawyer Serguey and his brother Victor return to their childhood home in the decaying suburbs of Havana. But what has he done? And can they secure his release?

Here we go… around a rose garden in Buenos Aires where a young American spy meets the beautiful daughter of an Argentinian revolutionary and all is not what it seems...in their cold war frosted mourning.

This short, intense book by anthropologist Juan José Martínez d’Aubuisson exposes life inside the largest, most violent gang in the world — Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13.

Millennial life from a Chilean perspective. A lot funnier than it sounds…

An up close and personal look at one of Latin America's most misunderstood nations.

Murder, mayhem, and more — in modern Mexico.

The BBC’s former ‘woman in Havana’ reports on the lives shaped by Fidel’s giant social experiment as the Castro era ends.

A poetic journey: from the deserts to the barrios. And beyond the border too.

The ethics of experimentation in art and science come under scrutiny here, as does the attraction to spectacle, and the dangers of capitalism.

Some of the best new writing coming out of Latin America today -— in a handy short story anthology.

Milliennial existential crisis meet mathematical theory in this intriguing Mexican novella.

Just imagine…

Not a book by the famous Colombian author; but a book about him.

Yup. Those 'Motorcycle Diaries'.

A reverse coming of age tale set in an increasingly modernising Argentina.

Turbulent lives entwine in a series of creatively concocted confrontations.

Don't like the way things are turning out? Re-write reality!