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Old 10-30-2007, 08:10 AM
TheMetetron TheMetetron is offline
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Default Spanish Speakers: Recommend me some good Spanish-language books

So, I've got quite a lot of traveling coming up between now and January and I'd like to pick up around 10 books to read during that time. Since I'm leaving Argentina in a bit over a month and won't be able to practice my Spanish with natives until I move to Barcelona in May, I'd like the books to be Spanish-language ones that I can read to help improve my vocabulary and grammar.

I prefer books by Argentine authors or about Argentina, but I imagine I'll have to branch out to other countries as well. I'm currently in Argentina so hopefully anything remotely well-known will be easy to find. I'd obviously like something by Borges, but really have no idea where to start.

Also, aside from Borges, I'd like to keep the books as modern as possible to both better understand the current cultural climate as well as the modern language currently in use. Of course exceptions will be made for classics that are excellent reads.

I realize this post is very selfish and asking for something without giving anything in return, but I couldn't find a way to add content about something I know very little about. Sorry mods [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

FWIW, my Spanish speaking/listening is around an intermediate level where I can use every tense and understand the majority of the grammar but am limited in real-life conversations by a vocabularly that isn't as vast as it should be (really my fault for having too many conversations in English with Argentine friends). I do, however, read better than I speak and can read the daily newspaper in Spanish, though I do have to look up words several times per article.

Edit: Bonus if anyone can name some good Italian books as well. I'm currently just starting to learn the language in preparation for a move to Florence in 2009. It will be some time before I am at a level where I can read books, but I'll be more likely to find some here in Argentina than in Australia where I'm going next. Many more Italian speakers here.
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