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One of the twentieth century's most enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buenda family. Rich and beautiful, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buenda family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Lati...

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This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.

De j├│venes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un m├(R)dico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est├í anonadado, pero es un rom├íntico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 peque├▒os romances, su coraz├│n todav├¡a pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intenci├│n. A los cincuenta a├▒os, nue...

An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the girl from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love. This moving new novel celebrates the joys of being in lo...

Siniflarin ortadan kalkmasi hayret verici bir sey. Herkes esit, herkes ayni düzeyde, herkes kötü dikilmis eski püskü giysiler icinde, ayaklarinda kalitesiz ayakkabilar var. Hic acele etmiyorlar, telas yok, sanki yasamak icin her seyi agirdan alip tüm vakitlerini kullaniyorlar. Burada da köylerdeki ayni saf, iyi kalpli ve saglikli kalabalik kitleler var ama devasa boyutlarda. Dogu Avrupada Yolculuk Gabriel Garca Mrquezin 1950lerde gazeteci olar...

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Otto racconti fantastici e insieme naturalistici dominati da una matrona mitica e prepotente, sovrana assoluta del regno di Macondo, ai cui funerali interviene persino il papa.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Fun...

This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction.

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No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is Garcia Marquez's shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebu...

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This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.

In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar - head of the Medellin drug cartel - kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, Garcia Marquez describes the survivors' perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He also depicts the keening ache of Colombia after nearly forty years of rebel uprisings, right-wing death squads, currency collapse and narco-...

»Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera« ist ein Roman voller Lebenskraft und Poesie. Dass nichts auf der Welt schwieriger ist als die Liebe, erleben und erleiden Fermina Daza und ihr Mann in ihrer über fünfzigjährigen Ehe. Schmerzlich erfährt das auch Florentino Ariza, Fermina Dazas ewiger Verehrer, der über fünfzig Jahre auf sie gewartet hat.

In »Chronik eines angekündigten Todes« feiert ein Dorf an der kolumbianischen Karibikküste ein rauschendes Hochzeitsfest, aber noch in der Hochzeitsnacht wird die Braut in ihr Elternhaus zurückgeschickt. Sie war nicht mehr unberührt. Der mutmaßliche Täter muss sterben. Mit großer Spannung beschreibt García Márquez die Stunden zwischen Ankündigung und Vollzug dieses Todes.

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 Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the ...

A New York Times Notable BookOn 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 from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he...