Query: Hispanic and Latino American novels set anywhere besides North America
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Desert Blood
La reina de América
Lost City Radio
At Night We Walk in Circles
Evidence from documents: Desert Blood: a 2005 mystery thriller by author Alicia Gaspar de Alba based on the violence, kidnapping and femicides that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in 1998.
Ivon Villa, a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles, returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby girl from Cecilia, a Mexican ''maquiladora'' living across the border in Juarez, as well as attend a family reunion. But to her horror, Cecilia turns up dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of the epidemic of homicides of young women from southern Mexico emigrating to the north for better work. Things take a turn for the worse when Ivon's sixteen-year-old sister Irene gets kidnapped while attending a fair in Juarez. The search for her sister leads Ivon to discover a terrifying conspiracy that involves everyone from the Border Patrol to the corrupt ''judicales'' in Juarez.
La reina de América: a novel by Uruguayan author Jorge Majfud. It was published by Baile del Sol in 2002.
This novel is about a family of Spanish immigrants in the nineteen-sixties and the adventures of Consuelo, the daughter of a prostitute to whom the title refers. It is set mainly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in the midst of the repressive Southern Cone dictatorships.
Lost City Radio: '''''Lost City Radio''''' is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
After a ten-year insurrection set in a nameless South American country in which the totalitarian government defeated a rebel group, the government has eliminated all indigenous languages and renamed all places as numbers; radio is the only remaining convenience.
At Night We Walk in Circles: a 2013 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
A young actor-Nelson, living in a nameless Latin American country joins Diciembre, a guerrilla theatre troupe. They plan to perform in a politically controversial play titled ''The Idiot President''. The play's author, Henry Nuñez,