Books like 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.
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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Near the end of the Second World War, a group of reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village are left behind there when the villagers flee a plague.
The War of the End of the World
In the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1890s, a preacher known as the Counsellor gathers thousands of the poor at Canudos, and the new republic sends its army against them.
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.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
In late-1950s Vienna, four teenagers, among them the twins Rainer and Anna, carry out violent robberies in the park out of boredom and contempt.
Beneath the Wheel
Hans Giebenrath, the gifted son of a Black Forest merchant, is pushed by his father and teachers into the elite Maulbronn seminary, where a rebellious friend shows him another way to live.
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 Getting of Wisdom
Laura Rambotham, a clever, awkward girl from the country, is sent to a Melbourne ladies' college and learns to lie in order to fit in.
Leaf Storm
In Macondo in 1928, a retired colonel insists on burying a doctor who has hanged himself, a man the whole town hated, while his daughter and small grandson keep vigil beside the coffin.
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.
True Biz
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
Paradais
A teenager and a groundskeeper in a Mexican gated community become entangled in a relationship that exposes the violence beneath manicured surfaces.