Book Club: The Best Latin American Books To Read Now 

When Gabriel García Márquez – Colombian author of Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read for October, One Hundred Years Of Solitude – was invited to the Hay Literary Festival in Wales in 2005, he couldn’t make it due to the distance. However, undeterred, the event came to him in the form of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias. Since then, it has grown to include events across Mexico, Peru, Spain and the US. If García Márquez’s work has inspired you to discover more Latin American writers, here you’ll find the Hay Festival team’s recommended titles to discover – head to the Book Club now to see the full list of 14 books… 

1. Abyss – Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman) 
2. Paradais – Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes) 
3. In The Beginning Was The Sea – Tomás González (translated by Frank Wynne) 
4. What Goes Unsaid: A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Were – Emiliano Monge (translated by Frank Wynne) 
5. Things We Lost In The Fire – Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell) 

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