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Books set in Chile:



The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Postman: A Novel by Antonio Skármeta
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel by Antonio Skármeta
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Paula by Isabel Allende
I Dreamt the Snow Was Burning by Antonio Skármeta
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Hot Line by Luis Sepúlveda
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
33 Men Inside by Jonathan Franklin
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North by Ariel Dorfman
The Movies of My Life by Alberto Fuguet
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras by Marjorie Agosín
Sacred Cow by Diamela Eltit
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin by Gabriel García Márquez
Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
Alive by Piers Paul Read
Tierra del Fuego by Francisco Coloane
Al 7-lea M by Francisca Solar
My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel
Gabriela Mistral: A Reader by Gabriela Mistral
Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Mascara by Ariel Dorfman
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Taratuta and Still Life With Pipe: Two Novellas by José Donoso
Bad Vibes by Alberto Fuguet

FREE FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS. The Surreal Killer, the third Roger Bowman-Suzanne Foster South American mystery novel in the series, is now available as a Kindle E-Book from Amazon (+Amazon UK and DE) for $2.99; the novel is free for Amazon Prime members at http://www.amazon.com/The-Surreal-Kil.... A serial killer is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The gruesome corpses all seem to have died in exactly the same macabre way. There may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region. Roger Bowman and Suzanne Foster are asked by the local police to attend this year’s meeting of the group in Lima, Peru to try to find out who was present at the previous meetings when the murders occurred. And the reader is off on a fast paced pursuit of the killer through Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu in Peru and Chile’s Atacama Desert. This is a true whodunit mystery novel set in an unusual and exotic locale.

Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman

Under a False Flag by Tom Gething

A Storm Hits Valparaiso by David Gaughran

Arauco: A Novel by John Caviglia

Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende

Hasta Siempre, Mujercitas / So Long, Little Women by Marcela Serrano

The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux

The Fourth World by Diamela Eltit

Custody of the Eyes by Diamela Eltit

Missing by Alberto Fuguet (mostly set in US)

Shorts by Alberto Fuguet

In the spy/thriller, THE OLD SPOOK, the fictional CIA operative Tom Miler helps topple the Allende regime. In Chuquicamata he confronts the Russian agent who recruited Lee Harvey Oswald. Available exclusively at Amazon.com. The Old Spook

Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

Ten Women by Marcella Serrano

Los habitantes de la ruina inconclusa - José Donoso

The Rhythm of Memory by Alyson Richman

In the Company of Angels: A Novel by Thomas E. Kennedy

Literary Memoirs by José Victorino Lastarria

Children of Fate: Hechos Consumados by Juan Radrigan

Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol by Harry Whitewolf, which also takes place in Santiago and Valparaiso in Chile.

A Distant Father by Antonio Skármeta

More books set in Chile:


100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
An Absence of Shadows by Marjorie Agosín
After-Dinner Declarations by Nicanor Parra
Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father
Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile by Marjorie Agosín
and a body to remember with by Carmen Rodríguez
Antipoems: New and Selected by Nicanor Parra
The Art of Dying by Óscar Hahn
Ashes In Love by Óscar Hahn
Atacama by Joe Moss
Beyond the Ties of Blood by Florencia Mallon
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
Breakthrough by Mercedes Valdivieso
The Butterfly Box by Santa Montefiore
Carmen's Rust by Ana María del Río
Chile: Death in South by Jacobo Timerman
Chilean Poets: A New Anthology by Jorge Etcheverry
A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile by Marjorie Agosín
Curfew: A Novel by José Donoso
The Days of the Rainbow by Antonio Skármeta
Dead Stars by Álvaro Bisama

More books set in Chile:

Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Desolation Island by Adolfo García Ortega
Destination Chile by Katy Colins
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
Emergency Poems by Nicanor Parra
Exit, Civilian by Idra Novey
Extravagaria by Pablo Neruda
Gabriela Mistral: selected poems by Gabriela Mistral
The Garden Next Door: A Novel by José Donoso
Ghost Train Through The Andes by Michael Jacobs
Hard Rain by Ariel Dorfman
Hell Has No Limits by José Donoso
A House in the Country by José Donoso
House of Mist: A Novel by María Luisa Bombal
I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín
Ice Limit by Douglas Preston
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño
Isla Negra: A Notebook by Pablo Neruda
The Last Copy by Ariel Dorfman
The Last Song of Manuel Sendero by Ariel Dorfman
The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance
Loquela by Carlos Labbé
Love Breaks by Óscar Hahn
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda
Love: Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda
Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards
Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson
Missing by Thomas Hauser
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra
My House Is On Fire by Ariel Dorfman
My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn by David Hays
The Name of a Bullfighter by Luis Sepúlveda
The Nanny and the Iceberg: A Novel by Ariel Dorfman
Navidad & Matanza by Carlos Labbé

More books set in Chile:


The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero
New Islands: And Other Stories by María Luisa Bombal
Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda
Odes to Opposites by Pablo Neruda
Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir by Marjorie Agosín
One More Stripe To The Tiger: A Selection Of Contemporary Chilean Poetry And Fiction
Patagonia Express by Luis Sepúlveda
Pinochet and Me by Marc Cooper
Poemas de Las Madres: The Mother's Poems by Gabriela Mistral
Poems and Antipoems by Nicanor Parra
The Poet's Wedding by Antonio Skármeta
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda
The Rest is Silence by Carla Guelfenbein
The Return by Roberto Bolaño
Road Story by Alberto Fuguet
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño
Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy
Sacred Families: Three Novellas by José Donoso
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral
Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepúlveda
Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile by Cathy Lisa Schneider
Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre
Soul's Infarct by Diamela Eltit
The Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
Starry Night by Marjorie Agosín
Stolen Verses and Other Poems by Óscar Hahn
Talking In Whispers by James Watson
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile
This Totally Scary True Story About When My Aunt Died by Theodore Kohan
Three Years Slavery Among the Patagonians by Auguste Guinnard
Trekking in the Patagonian Andes by Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
W or the Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec
Watch Where the Wolf is Going: Stories by Antonio Skármeta
A Week in October by Elizabeth Subercaseaux
The Yellow Heart by Pablo Neruda

Diane wrote: "More books set in Chile:

Hi Diane,

Do you also catagorize books within a country by genre? I am interested in focusing my Around the World reading time on historic novels.

Kelly wrote: "Diane wrote: "More books set in Chile:

Hi Diane,

Do you also catagorize books within a country by genre? I am interested in focusing my Around the World reading time on historic novels."
Not yet. Someday...

Dark Echoes of the Past by Ramón Díaz Eterovic

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende (also set in NY, Guatemala, and Brazil)

The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado

Violeta by Isabel Allende
Sweeping view of the past century, the narrator Violeta (possibly based on the author's mother?) was born in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1920s Chile and dies in the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Family saga that gives you a good overview of Chile (only referred to as "mi país") Vintage Allende.

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz.

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán.

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From the book Proximity Factor

“Now... let me first thank the staff who have followed me from the ALMA project in Chile.”
A group of scientists stood and delivered a rousing applause.
“Yes...Thank you all!
For a reminder, or for those who have not seen the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) project I designed in Chile, here is a photo.”
He pushed a few buttons on the podium to display this photo.