Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was born in Colombia in 1927. His many books include “The Autumn of the Patriarch; No One Writes to the Colonel; Love in the Time of Cholera;” a memoir, “Living to Tell the Tale”; and, most recently, a novel, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”. Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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Andrea Busfield
Can a book change your life? I’m not sure it can. I think it can influence the way you think for a time, but it’s usually people and events that create change. However, a book that made me stop and think was One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (11)
One of the 20th century’s enduring works, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend…
Love in the Time of Cholera (2)
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people’s lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his …
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1)
“EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered.”
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with th…
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (0)
This collection of fiction, representing some of Garcia Marquez’s earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Erendira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (0)
A “New York Times” Notable Book
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is …
Of Love and Other Demons (0)
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl wit…
The General in His Labyrinth (0)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in Garcia Marquez’s bril…
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories (0)
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Ca…
Collected Novellas (0)
Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real.
" Leaf Storm, "…
The Autumn of the Patriarch (0)
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, “The Autumn of the Patriarch” is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and…
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (0)
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
In Evil Hour (0)
Written just before “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author’s later flowering and greatness.
Leaf Storm: And Other Stories (0)
Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo
Collected Stories (0)
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: "Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama’s Funeral, "and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother….
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (0)
Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for “El Espectador,” a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Co…
