Books like Conversation in the Cathedral
Santiago Zavala, a journalist, runs into his father's old chauffeur Ambrosio in Lima, and over four hours in a bar called La Catedral they go back over the Odría dictatorship and what it did to them both.
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The President
In a Central American capital ruled by a nameless dictator, the murder of an army officer sets off a wave of persecution that reaches the president's own favourite.
The Feast of the Goat
Urania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic decades after fleeing it, and her story braids with Trujillo's final day and the conspirators who ambushed his car in 1961.
In Evil Hour
In a small Colombian town under a military mayor, anonymous lampoons start appearing on doors overnight, exposing the residents' secrets, and one of them leads to a killing.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
A decaying Caribbean dictator whose reign has lasted over a century recalls his lovers, his enemies, and the loneliness of absolute power.
The Time of the Hero
At the Leoncio Prado military academy in Lima, a cadet steals the questions for a chemistry exam, and the theft sets off a chain of events among the boys of the fifth year.
Jean Barois
Told largely in dialogue and documents, the life of Jean Barois, raised a Catholic, who loses his faith to science, founds a crusading review during the Dreyfus Affair and faces death.
The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.
Distant Star
A narrator looks back on a charismatic young poet in 1970s Chile who, after the coup, reappears as an air force pilot skywriting verses and is linked to the disappearance of women.
Shame
In a country that is and is not Pakistan, two feuding politicians' families are bound by marriage to a girl whose blushes of shame turn into violence.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
A Bend in the River
Salim, from an Indian Muslim family long settled on the East African coast, takes over a shop in a town at the bend of a great river in the African interior, in the years after independence.
Simpatía
A film writer in a collapsing Caracas inherits his father-in-law’s mansion on the condition that he turn it into a shelter for the dogs the exiled middle class has left behind.