Best Books of the 21st Century According to the NYT - Nuestras Raíces EditionLike this list

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• When We Cease to Understand the World

  Labatut, Benjamin

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  #83 "Benjamín Labatut is a Chilean author born in the Netherlands in 1980. He was raised in The Hague before settling in Chile, where he lives and works. He is the author of Antarctica starts here (2009), a short story collection; After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hurricane Season

  Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-

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  #82 "Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor’s novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, and was a New York Times Notable Book."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Friend

  Nunez, Sigrid

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  #68 "Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, and For Rouenna, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We the Animals

  Torres, Justin, 1980-

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  # 66 "An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trust

  Diaz, Hernan, 1973-

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  # 50 How many ways can you tell the same story? Which one is true? These questions and their ethical implications hover over Diaz’s second novel. It starts out as a tale of wealth and power in 1920s New York — something Theodore Dreiser or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Savage Detectives

  Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003

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  # 38 “The Savage Detectives” is brash, hilarious, beautiful, moving. It’s also over 600 pages long, which is why I know that my memory of reading it in a single sitting is definitely not true. Still, the fact that it feels that way is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Diaz, Junot, 1968-

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  # 11 This book won the Pulitzer Prize.

• 2666

  A Novel

  Bolaño, Roberto

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  # 6 A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Temporada de huracanes

  Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-

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  This is Hurricane Season in the original Spanish.

• Los detectives salvajes

  Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-

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  This is The Savage Detectives In the original Spanish.