by DYB Team | May 28, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
Some books almost did not survive. This is one of them. Love, Anger, Madness is a trilogy of three short novels by the Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet, originally published in French as Amour, Colère et Folie in 1968. The book came out, ran into trouble almost...
by DYB Team | May 27, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
I’m going to be honest. This is a book I held in my hands for a long time before I opened it. Eleven hundred pages will do that. The spine alone looks like a building. But once I started reading, the size stopped mattering. The book gets bigger as you go in, not...
by DYB Team | May 25, 2026 | Latin America
The Trueba family lives in a country that is never named but is, transparently, Chile. The story begins with Clara del Valle, a strange, clairvoyant child who can move objects across a room with her mind and who falls silent for nine years after watching the autopsy...
by DYB Team | May 17, 2026 | Latin America
In the jungle town of Macondo, founded by the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía after a dream of a city of mirrors, seven generations of one family live out a century of love affairs, civil wars, banana plantations, prophecies, insomnia plagues, and ghosts who refuse to...
