Libros Bolivianos [upd]

The wind hit hard in that unprotected zone of the hillside, in that place where we were nothing, where we weren't even visitors, and I, lying on the ground, unable to get up, asked myself what I was doing there, what we were all doing there, so far from home, chasing something that perhaps didn't exist. The sky was an almost white blue and the silence, I suddenly realized, was absolute. I thought I understood, in that instant, Vellard's obsession, his blind faith in data and measurements: they were a shield against that silence, a way of not having to listen to it, of not having to face the immensity."

Cuando hablamos de , no nos referimos simplemente a una categoría geográfica dentro de una librería. Hablamos de un territorio literario vasto, complejo y profundamente original. Bolivia, ese país mestizo de altiplano, valles y llanuras, ha gestado una de las narrativas más potentes y menos exploradas de América Latina. libros bolivianos

If you read only one Bolivian author, make it Jesús Lara. A linguist and novelist, Lara wrote Yawarninchij (Our Blood) in both Quechua and Spanish. It tells the story of a young indigenous boy who is forced into the brutal tin mines. The wind hit hard in that unprotected zone