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Time Out Buenos Aires

by Time Out

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 334 PAGES

A practical guide to the city and surroundings (including recommended excursions), jam-packed with detailed listings of hotels, bars and restaurants, shops and services. (ARG45, $19.95)

Buenos Aires, A Cultural History

by Jason Wilson | Alberto Manguel

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2000
• PAPER
• 249 PAGES

This well-referenced book offers a look into the geographical history of the city and goes in hand nicely with a more traditional guidebook. The city's underlying themes are laid out: Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and the European literary tradition; tango, the longing and despair of the music and its roots; the cult of Evita Peron; European-influenced architecture and cafe life; totalitarian politics; and the nearly religious importance of soccer. (ARG21, $15.00)

Tango: the Dance, the Song, the Story

by Simon Collier

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1997
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

A spirited, illustrated tribute to the tango, the now-elegant dance born in the brothels among the working class of 19th-century Buenos Aires. (ARG14, $29.95)

Buenos Aires Map

by Borch Maps

• 2006
• MAP

A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. (ARG38, $8.95)

 

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Frommer's Buenos Aires

by Michael Luongo

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Comprehensive and up-to-date, this outstanding and practical guide covers where to stay, where to eat and what to see in Argentina's boisterous capital city. (ARG57, $17.99)

Lonely Planet Buenos Aires

by Lonely Planet

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

The best of Buenos Aires is included in this practical guide, along with a pullout map and insider recommendations on shopping, eating, sleeping and day trips. (ARG10, $19.99)

The Authentic Bars, Cafes and Restaurants of Buenos Aires

by Gabriela Kogan

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 144 PAGES

Kogan's great tips on where to eat, drink and dance the tango all night, including a map and a glossary of Argentine food. (ARG84, $14.95)

Vino Argentino, An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina

by Laura Catena

• FOOD
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 239 PAGES

This detailed, lushly illustrated guidebook to Argentina's wine region includes recipes, travel information, historical anecdotes, photographs, conversations with winemakers and a useful wine glossary. (ARG117, $27.50)

Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin

by David Rock

• HISTORY
• 1989
• PAPER
• 511 PAGES

A highly readable, comprehensive history of Argentina since colonization. (ARG07, $31.95)

Estancias: The Great Houses and Ranches of Argentina

by Maria Saenz Quesada | Xavier Verstraeten

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1992
• HARD COVER
• 200 PAGES

Two dozen magnificent country estates are detailed in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring 200 color photographs and a cultural and social history by Maria Saenz Quesada. (ARG62, $75.00)

Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron

by Nicholas Fraser

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1996
• PAPER
• 222 PAGES

Separating fact from myth, Frazer traces Evita's life from her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure, also exploring Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $15.95)

Argentina, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Jill Gibian

• LITERATURE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

These choice stories introduce the landscapes and culture of Argentina, from the Andes to the Pampas, through the eyes of its writers. (ARG97, $14.95)

Heartbreak Tango

by Manuel Puig

• LITERATURE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

Puig's wicked tale of the life and death of Juan, an impossibly beautiful dancer and Lothario, seeped in the melancholy of Buenos Aires. (ARG23, $13.95)

Imagining Argentina

by Lawrence Thornton

• LITERATURE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

A brilliant first novel that captures the hope and spirit of Argentina during the military rule of the late 1970s. This inventive tale focuses on Carlos Rueda and a group of citizens whose relatives disappeared. (ARG01, $15.00)

Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings

by Jorge Borges

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

The best known work by this extraordinary writer. Sometimes bizarre, always hilarious and thought-provoking, this dazzling collection of stories is well worth the effort. (ARG09, $14.95)

Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien

by Brian Winter

• LITERATURE
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 336 PAGES

A journalist posted to the capital during the economic crisis, Winter captures the rhythms and character of Buenos Aires with fearless, profane wit in this wise and rollicking portrait. (ARG80, $24.95)

Needle in a Hay Stack

by Ernesto Mallo

• MYSTERY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 190 PAGES

Set in Buenos Aires during the brutal reign of the junta, Mallo's classic noir follows a cop and his obsessive refusal to give up the chase. (ARG120, $14.99)

On Argentina

by Jorge Luis Borges

• LITERATURE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

Borges's literary guide to his beloved Buenos Aires and Argentina, newly translated into English. (ARG110, $15.00)

Santa Evita

by Tomas Eloy Martinez | Helen Lane

• LITERATURE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 371 PAGES

This riveting tale of the life -- and afterlife -- of Eva Duarte springs from actual events in Argentina in the 1950s, including the peregrinations of a perfectly preserved corpse. (ARG22, $16.00)

The Buenos Aires Quintet

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban

• LITERATURE
• 2012
• PAPER
• 377 PAGES
• COMING IN FEBRUARY

Montalban comments on not just wine, women and song, but also much of Argentina's political and cultural history in this riveting detective tale set against a backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires culture and the era's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.95)

The Secret in Their Eyes

by Eduardo Sacheri

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

Basis for the 2010 Oscar-winning film and a portait of 1970s Buenos Aires, Sacheri's novel-within-a-novel follows Benjamin Chaparro, a retired clerk in the Palace of Justic, who sets out to write a novel about a case that has haunted him for decades. (ARG122, $15.95)

The Tunnel

by Margaret Sayers Peden | Ernesto Sabato

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES
• COMING IN MARCH

Penguin Classics marks the 100th anniversary of Sabato's birth with new translation of his best-known novel -- a tale of obsessive love that captures the existential soul of Buenos Aires. (ARG119, $15.00)

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