Fresh Dirt from the Grave by Giovanna Rivero (Translated by Isabel Adey)
Author(s) from: Bolivia
Setting: ???
Original Language: Spanish
First Publised: 2020
Description: Six tales of a dark beauty that throb with disturbing themes: the legitimacy of revenge, incest as survival, indigenous witchcraft versus Japanese wisdom, the body as a corpse we inhabit. Rivero's stories pierce the reader like a wound, but in the end also offer possibilities of love, justice and hope. Told with a fierce and fragile lyricism that probes the abysses of the human soul, in Fresh Dirt From the Grave Giovanna Rivero reworks the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism.

American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea (Translated by Adrian Althoff )
Author(s) from: Born in Bolivia where he lived for most of his life though he worked as a journalist in Europe for almost 20 years.
Setting: La Paz, Bolivia
Original Language: Spanish
First Publised: 1994
Description: Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami. Mario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians--and initiating a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise.

Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún (Translated by Sophie Hughes)
Author(s) from: Bolivia
Setting: Bolivia
Original Language: Spanish
First Publised: 2015
Description: Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of World War II, Hans and his family flee to Bolivia to start over. There, the ever-restless Hans decides to embark on an expedition in search of the fabled lost Inca city of Paitit , enlisting two of his daughters to join him on his outlandish quest into the depths of the Amazon, with disastrous consequences.