One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1971
The Buendía family's seven generations trace the whole arc of Macondo and, by extension, of Colombia and Latin America, making national history feel like family memory.
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 1982
Three generations of the Trueba family carry Chile's political and social upheavals, so the country's history arrives through the intimate texture of one household.
The Back of the Turtle
Thomas King · 2014
A close fit for this set.
The Harp in the South
Ruth Park · 1948
An Australian novel that follows a rural family's move into inner-city Sydney, capturing the pull of the metropolis and the cost of leaving the land.
The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño · 2003
A Chilean novel that traces how political violence and exile seep into ordinary lives, told with Bolaño's characteristic blend of melancholy and dark humor.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz · 2007
A Dominican American novel about a family split between the Dominican Republic and New Jersey, where the idea of home is carried, lost and reinvented across the diaspora.
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