South America Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/south-america/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:34:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg South America Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/south-america/ 32 32 38398750 Fruit of the Drunken Tree https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/#comments Wed, 22 May 2019 07:15:56 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12773 Petrona used to live on a farm in Colombia, with her nine brothers and her sister. Then the paramilitary showed up, burned down their house and their fields, and took her father and her three oldest brothers. Now, she, her mother, three of her brothers and her sister live in shack in the slums of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/feed/ 2 12773 The Lucky Ones: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/03/the-lucky-ones/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/03/the-lucky-ones/#comments Mon, 20 Mar 2017 07:47:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8511   Covering a span from the early 1990s to present day, The Lucky Ones is a novel about Colombia that is as densely dark as that country’s rainforests. Like those forests the novel is home to a wide array of creatures ranging from the innocent to the dangerous; those that hide in the underbrush and those […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/03/the-lucky-ones/feed/ 6 8511 Sergio Y. https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/sergio-y/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/sergio-y/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:25:07 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6475   Armando is a seventy-year-old highly esteemed psychiatrist in São Paulo and the narrator of Sergio Y.  He is writing because of a patient he had many years ago—a seventeen-year-old boy who came to see him for several months but abruptly ended their sessions without explanation after returning from vacation in New York City. The […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/sergio-y/feed/ 5 6475 Cartwheel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/cartwheel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/cartwheel/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 07:58:37 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2176 Maybe that was the problem with this family—they were all in direct competition with one another to see who could bend over backward the farthest, who could suffer the most. Jennifer Dubois’ new novel, Cartwheel, is as knotted and tangled as the judicial system itself. Add the fact that it takes place in a foreign country […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/cartwheel/feed/ 3 2176 The Rhythm of Memory https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/12/the-rhythm-of-memory/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/12/the-rhythm-of-memory/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:27:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1047 Octavio met his beloved wife, Salomé, when she was 17, attending a convent school. He wooed her relentlessly despite her family’s objections to his low status and lack of any real means of supporting her. They marry anyway and with his good looks and charisma Octavio goes on to become one of the most well-known […]

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