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2) Undiscovered
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"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless...
3) Vortex
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Cutter Cay volume 3
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Searching for a sunken ship off the coast of Peru, treasure hunter Logan Cutter manages to pull a very different kind of prize from the sea--a stunningly beautiful woman. Her name is Daniela Rosada, an exotic gallery owner tossed overboard by ruthless drug dealers. But something about her story is as fishy as the sea--and twice as dangerous...
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"Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically,...
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A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky...
6) Cien cuyes
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En un barrio residencial de Lima con vistas al mar languidecen unos ancianos de clase acomodada. Frasia, acuciada por sus necesidades econ̤micas, pues tiene que sacar adelante a su hijo Nico, se ha ido convirtiendo en compą̕a imprescindible para algunos de ellos. Si consiguiera juntar diez cuyes, el dinero para comprar diez conejillos de Indias, podr̕a, seg͠n le dijo siempre su t̕o, empezar una nueva vida. As̕, todos los d̕as cruza la ciudad...
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