South America + South American history

Book Reviews

• Tulio Halperín Donghi: The Contemporary History of Latin America
  - politics and economics from the early 19th century
• Simon Lamb: Devil in the Mountain
  A Search for the Origin of the Andes
• Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques
  - travels in Brazil: "I hate travelling and explorers"
• María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco: History of the Inca Realm
  - an ethnohistorical overview
• J.L. Salcedo-Bastardo: Bolivar
  A Continent and its Destiny
• Mario Vargas Llosa: Conversation in the Cathedral**
  - a novel about power and politics in Peru in the early 1950s
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: The Buenos Aires Quintet
  - tango and the disappeared: PI Pepe Carvalho in Argentina

See also: Central America | Spanish literature