The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate student, he returns to Bolivia to seek answers to his own life by investigating the mysteries of his father's past. Trapped between two cultures, Pedro ultimately finds himself in an existential dilemma of tragic dimensions. The Matter of Desire combines elements of the political thriller and the family mystery with a torrid illicit love affair and brilliantly elucidates the complex relationship between Latin America and the United States.

The Matter Of Desire: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Edmundo Paz Soldán

United States

HarperVia

The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel “Turing” Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber’s latest target: Kandinsky, a “cyberhacktivist” leader who is staging a war against both the government and the country’s transnational corporations as part of an antiglobalization revolution. As Turing finds himself drawn into a web of murder, intrigue, and deception, he begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once believed.

Turing's Delirium

Follows the leader of a group of computer hackers who oppose the government and the big corporations, the founder of the government's code-breaking unit, and a government agent who fears he works for the wrong side.

El Delirio De Turing (Turing's Obsession) (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Alfaguara

Everything began with the head of Che and the body of Raquel Welch. Sebastián, expert graphic designer in digital images, is tempted to alter some compromising photos. He soon finds himself involved in a conspiracy to modify the President's turbulent past, and thereby, the entire history of the country. In "Sueños digitales", the latest novel by Edmundo Paz Soldán, the future has arrived-nightmares carry an overwhelming burden of color, and nothing is what it appears to be.

Sueños digitales (Spanish Edition)

Excesos del Cuerpo

Mario Bellatin

Diamela Eltit

Margo Glantz

Sergio Chejfec

SYLVIA MOLLOY

Alan Pauls

Roberto Echavarren

Eterna Cadencia

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