 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.48 all of human life and history is here - magnificent
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 | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £0.21 bizarre and apparently autobiographical, full of wonderful characters
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 | Gabriela: Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Buy used from: £6.47 rich, funny and loving account of small town Brazil
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 | The General in His Labyrinth (Penguin Fiction) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.95 his most reflective work as Simon Bolivar meditates on his life
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 | Pedro Paramo (Five Star) by Juan Rulfo
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.53 the earliest book on this list but you can see where Macondo came from
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 | The Autumn of the Patriarch (International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.78 stunning and relentless account of a dictator - be prepared for three-page sentences
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 | The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.61 the other great dictator novel, gripping
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 | Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Buy used from: £0.01 how many Evitas were there?
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 | Kiss of the Spider Woman (Arena Books) by Manuel Puig
Buy new: £3.06 / Used from: £2.92 the film is well known I guess but the book is always better
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 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £3.97 small is beautiful
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 | The Green House by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy used from: £9.34 Vargas Llosa makes the reader work hard but the rewards can be enormous
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 | The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Alvaro Mutis
Buy new: £7.73 / Used from: £5.52 seedy adventures of the eccentric Maqroll by little known but excellent Colombian writer
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 | 62: A Model Kit by Julio Cortazar
Buy new: £9.20 / Used from: £13.82 probably unique - read in any order
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 | Drown by Junot Diaz
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £4.50 short stories so I suppose I shouldn't list it but hard not to
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 | La Muerte de Artemio Cruz = The Death of Artemio Cruz (Punto De Lectura, 108/1) by Carlos Fuentes
Buy new: £4.63 / Used from: £5.39 a difficult book but you really get inside the Mexican Revolution
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 | The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.33 a latin american 'war and peace' - without the peace
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 | A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics) by Juan Carlos Onetti
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £4.12 as 'The Pit' and 'Body Snatcher' are unavailable this brooding urban novel will have to suffice for Onetti
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 | The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargos Llosa
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.00 Vargas Llosa's first book but the fine storytelling is all there
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.09 all you need is love
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 | Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano
Buy used from: £20.00 ok it isn't a novel but what else could it be called - a kaleidoscope of historical events that portray a thousand years of latin america like nothing else
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 | The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 perhaps the best 'latin american novel' by a european!
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