You can read these books in the time it takes to watch the Super Bowl
Kerri Miller's Must-Read
I’m leaving tonight for South America with a merry band of MPR adventurers, and literature will be our guiding light.
We’ll visit the house where poet Pablo Neruda lived, absorb the light and the landscape of Isabel Allende’s work and feel the magic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
As we hike in the windswept hills of Patagonia, we’ll be reading and discussing Bruce Chatwin’s wonderful travelogue, “In Patagonia." As we approach Buenos Aires, we’ll shift to some contemporary fiction coming out of South America today.
I’m enclosing, dear readers, the list of books that will accompany our travels — and I hope you select at least one to read along with us.
• “House of Spirits” and “Eva Luna” by Isabel Allende
• “Living to Tell the Tale” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Translations of Pablo Neruda's poetry, from Copper Canyon Press
• “The Motorcycle Diaries” by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
• “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatwin
• “My Father’s Ghost is Climbing the Rain” by Patricio Pron
• “Ways of Going Home” by Alejandro Zambra
As you read, I’d love to hear what you think. Find me on Twitter @KerriMPR.
-K.M.
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