A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Learn More

Asleep in the Sun is the great work of the Argentine master Adolfo Bioy Casares’s later years. Learn More

A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. Learn More

An extraordinary Brazilian novel, reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner or Conrad in its remarkable power and its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilisation. Learn More

Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence. Learn More

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Learn More

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. Augusto Boal is a renowned dramatist and the author of several works on politics and theatre. He lives in Brazil. Learn More