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E. B. White's Charlotte's Web was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal the year Secret of the Andes won the award. [4] According to a 2008 article by children's literature expert Anita Silvey in the School Library Journal, one member of the Newbery committee stated that she voted for Secret of the Andes rather than Charlotte's Web "because she hadn't seen any good books about South America."
Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. [1] [2] Civil Guard member Corporal Lituma has been transferred to the rural mountain town of Naccos, where he investigates the disappearances of three men, while under the constant threat of Senderista guerrilla attacks.
Pages in category "Novels set in Peru" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amazon Adventure;
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
Between the Woods and the Water (1986) – The second part of the journey begun in A Time of Gifts, covering Hungary to Romania. Three Letters from the Andes (1991) The Broken Road (2013) – The third part of the journey narrated in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, covering Romania to Thrace. Camilo José Cela (1916–2002)
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
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The Sands of Time (Sheldon novel) Shadow of a Bull; Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree; Sharpe's Command; Sharpe's Rifles; Singing in the Shrouds; The Spanish Gardener (novel) The Spanish Love Deception; The Stone Raft; The Sun Also Rises