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1	Atmospheric Disturbances more books like this by Rivka Galchen At once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind, this highly inventive debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £5.65!
2	Blood and Honor more books like this by W E B Griffin The heroes of "Honor Bound" return. A German vessel sets sail to resupply submarines in the South Atlantic; money earmarked for post-war Reich makes its way to South America; a government coup - and in the midst of it all, the German ordered assassination of Frade's father demands only revenge. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Ficciones more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (18990-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is "Ficciones" (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. This edition, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of ... see all copies from £2.55! new only from £9.22! \| first editions
4	Kiss of the Spider Woman more books like this by Manuel Puig Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Hostage more books like this by W E B Griffin THE HOSTAGE marks the return of Charley Castillo, an army major attached to Homeland Security who answers directly to the President. In this gripping political/military thriller, the murder of an associate in Paris sends corrupt U.N. diplomat Jean-Paul Lorimer fleeing to a plush hideout in rural Brazil. But Lorimer's foes, pursuing the money ... see all copies from £4.52! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Stories of Eva Luna more books like this by Isabel Allende Isabel Allende is one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Retruning to this tale, Allende presents "The Stories of Eva Luna," a treasure trove of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors more books like this by Piers Paul Read In October 1972 an aircraft carrying a party of Uruguayan rugby players and their friends took off from Argentina to fly over the Andes to Chile. It crashed in the mountains in dense cloud, and some of the 45 passengers were killed. The survivors soon realized, by listening to their transistor radio, that the search party had been called off ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	In Patagonia more books like this by Bruce Chatwin Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, "In Patagonia" is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
9	Hopscotch more books like this by Julio Cortazar This is the tragic history of two men and their circle of friends who live in Buenos Aires and Paris. Anticipating the age of the Web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, the book invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.15! \| first editions
10	The Ministry of Special Cases more books like this by Nathan Englander The long-awaited first novel from the author of the sensational short-story collection "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" is a stunning historical tale set at the start of Argentina's Dirty War, a hallucinatory journey into a forbidden city and a world of terror. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	El túnel more books like this by Ernesto Sabato For those interested in South American literature, this is a "tour-de-force". Clever and gripping from beginning to end, "El Tunel" reveals how an intelligent and educated man can be driven to insanity and even crime by his own doubts and the obsessive drive for the love of a woman. see all copies from £2.15! new only from £6.78! \| first editions
12 view cover	Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron more books like this by Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.97!
13 view cover	Imagining Argentina more books like this by Lawrence Thornton The horror of the Junta rule in Argentina is the subject of this novel which combines reality and fiction. The author uses an imaginary character, Carlos Rueda who has a gift for storytelling and an ability to forsee future happenings with unerring precision. People come to Carlos's garden on the Calle Cordova where he tells the stories of the ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £7.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings. more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel". see all copies from £2.11! new only from £7.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Honorary Consul more books like this by Graham Greene Set in a provincial Argentinean town, "The Honorary Consul" takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as "The Power and the Glory" and "The Comedians." On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries lies Paraguay, a ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
16 view cover	Rhineman Exchange more books like this by Robert Ludlum Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. American agent David Spaulding will be there. His top-secret mission can bring the war to an explosive end. But what happens here in this city of ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	de Amor y de Sombra more books like this by Isabel Allende In a Latin American country under a military dictatorship, Irene Beltran, an upper-class journalist, and Francisco Leal, the photographer son of a Marxist professor, discover a hideous crime. see all copies from £4.06! new only from £9.79! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Story of the Night more books like this by Colm Toibin Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The whispering land more books like this by Gerald Malcolm Durrell Fans of Gerard Durrellas beloved classic "My Family and Other Animals" and other accounts of his lifelong fascination with members of the animal kingdom will rejoice at "The Whispering Land," The sequel to "A Zoo in My Luggage," this is the story of how Durrell and his wifeas zoo-building efforts at Englandas Jersey Zoo led them and a team of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.29! \| first editions
20 view cover	Santa Evita more books like this by Tomas Eloy Martinez Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally strange life. This novel explores the damaging effects of fame. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The House on Garibaldi Street more books like this by Isser Harel, Shlomo J Shpiro (Editor) The House on Garibaldi Street is the true story of one of this century's most audacious intelligence operations - the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's secret intelligence service. In a daring operation which shook the world, a team of elite Mossad agents, under the personal command of the legendary Mossad leader ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £24.63! \| first editions
22 view cover	Blow-Up: And Other Stories more books like this by Julio Cortazar In the stories here— including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his film— Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious. see all copies from £7.77! new only from £9.82!
23 view cover	Cuentos de Eva Luna more books like this by Isabel Allende Short stories in Allende's celebrated magical-realist mode. see all copies from £2.07! new only from £7.98!
24 view cover	The Battle for the Falklands more books like this by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.48! \| first editions
25 view cover	Aleph and Other Stories more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters. see all copies from £8.48! new only from £9.18! \| first editions

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