CITY · ARGENTINABooks set in Buenos Aires
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31 books · 25 authors · 1929–2021
31 books here
Most-set authors
Ricardo Piglia (2) · Julio Cortázar (2) · Jorge Luis Borges (2) · Samanta Schweblin (2) · Tomás Eloy Martínez (2) · Mariana Enriquez (2)
Genres
literary fiction (13) · horror (1) · science fiction (1) · romance (1) · mystery & crime (1)
Books set here
Set in Buenos Aires (26)
A Brief Life
Juan Carlos Onetti
protagonist Brausen real-world base
Adán Buenosayres
Leopoldo Marechal
1920s Buenos Aires, the city as hero
Artificial Respiration
Ricardo Piglia
dictatorship-era Buenos Aires
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Julio Cortázar
Palermo and Buenos Aires suburbs
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges literary Buenos Aires
Ghosts
César Aira
primary setting
Mouthful of Birds
Samanta Schweblin
Collection set in Argentina; Buenos Aires is primary Argentine urban setting implied
On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sábato
1950s Buenos Aires, Perón era
Optic Nerve
María Gainza
primary setting
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez
1980s Buenos Aires streets
Santa Evita
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Buenos Aires tango barrios
Seven Empty Houses
Samanta Schweblin
Contemporary Buenos Aires, class-segregated neighborhoods, domestic unease
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Dystopian Argentine-inspired country where human meat is legal; author born in Buenos Aires
The Absent City
Ricardo Piglia
Buenos Aires; futuristic detective story in the Argentine capital
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
Buenos Aires; contemporary horror stories set in poverty-stricken neighborhoods haunted by Argentina's disappeared
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Olivier Guez
Buenos Aires; Mengele's first refuge under Peron's Argentina after fleeing Auschwitz
The Lizard's Tail
Luisa Valenzuela
Peronist Buenos Aires dictatorship-era
The Promise
Silvina Ocampo
narrator childhood memories Buenos Aires
The Secret in Their Eyes
Eduardo Sacheri
1970s investigative court, Buenos Aires
The Seven Madmen
Roberto Arlt
1920s Buenos Aires tenements
The Tango Singer
Tomás Eloy Martínez
primary setting
The Woman from Uruguay
Pedro Mairal
Buenos Aires where Lucas Pereyra is stuck at home caring for his son, before his day trip to Montevideo to collect a cas
Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
Horror stories in Buenos Aires slums, Dirty War shadows
Trans-Atlantyk
Witold Gombrowicz
Buenos Aires; Gombrowicz arrives August 1939 days before the Nazi invasion, stranded in exile — the entire novel is set
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
Aleph basement on Garay Street
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig
Buenos Aires prison cell
Also featuring Buenos Aires (5)
Dr. García's Patients
Almudena Grandes
Nazi ratlines, exile community
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Return to Buenos Aires
The Eternaut
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
survivors battle alien forces
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
literary trail Buenos Aires
The Resistance
Julián Fuks
dictatorship-era resistance origin
Notable locations in Buenos Aires
Garay Street, Buenos Aires1Vicente López1Villa Devoto Prison, Buenos Aires1
Nearby books
A Brief Life
Juan Carlos Onetti
0 km · Buenos Aires
Mouthful of Birds
Samanta Schweblin
0 km · Argentina
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
0 km · Argentina
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
0 km · Buenos Aires
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Olivier Guez
0 km · Buenos Aires
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
0 km · Buenos Aires
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
2 km · Garay Street, Buenos Aires
The Eternaut
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
12 km · Vicente López