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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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[March 6, 1927 - ] |
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In Evil Hour (1962)
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.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967) -- 2004
Oprah Book Club
selection
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town
of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich
and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of
humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of
the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the
history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin
America.
Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and
senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the
search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the
novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity
of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García
Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are
the mark of a master.
Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude
weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new
consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages,
this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of
the human race.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
(1975)
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 the worst of human nature.
Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism,
vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own
dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and
overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the
reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
(1983)
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that 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 we are left with a strange
sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
(1985) with Edith Grossman, Translator -- 2007
Oprah Book Club
selection
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza
fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry
a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a
romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the
years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her
husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the
funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first
declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces
an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it
seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the
novel in many wonderful guises--joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever
surprising.
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The General In His Labyrinth
(1989)
General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five
South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the
Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving
the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely
charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he
still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses
cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he
commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is
a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.
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Of Love And Other Demons
(1994) with Edith Grossman, Translator
Of Love and Other Demons
is set in a South American seaport in the colonial
era, a time of viceroys and bishops, enlightened men and
Inquisitors, saints and lepers and pirates. Sierva Maria, only child
of a decaying noble family, has been raised in the slaves' courtyard
of her father's cobwebbed mansion while her mother succumbs to
fermented honey and cacao on a faraway plantation. On her twelfth
birthday the girl is bitten by a rabid dog, and even as the wound is
healing she is made to endure therapies indistinguishable from
tortures. Believed, finally, to be possessed, she is brought to a
convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano
Delaura, the Bishop's protege, who has already dreamed about a girl
with hair trailing after her like a bridal train; who is already
moved by this kicking, spitting, emaciated creature strapped to a
stone bed. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils,
Delaura feels "something immense and irreparable" happening to him.
It is love, "the most terrible demon of all." And it is not long
before Sierra Maria joins him in his fevered misery.
Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons haunts us with
its evocation of an exotic world while it treats, majestically the
most universal experiences known to woman and man.
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
(2005) with Edith Grossman, Translator
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 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 who awakens to a romance he has never known.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
(1968)
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.
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Leaf Storm (1972)
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
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Innocent Erendira (1978)
This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's
earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent
Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape
the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.
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Collected Stories (1984)
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 Eréndira and Her Heartless
Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the
stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating
the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of
family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
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Strange Pilgrims (1992)
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Bon Voyage Mr. President and Other Stories (1995)
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Living to Tell the Tale (2002) with Edith Grossman, Translator
Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale
is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s
life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a
writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who
would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the
vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people,
places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his
eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and
maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the
friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of
his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that
would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and,
above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his
fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical
world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the
heart of a life—in this instance, his own.
Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling
memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a
writer and as a man.
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 Colombia. This book,
which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is
Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.
The Fragrance of Guava (1982) with Plinio Apuleyo
Mendoza
Conversations between García Márquez and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (1987)
For The Sake Of A Country Within Reach Of The Children (1996)
This exceptionally beautiful essay by the Colombian Nobel
Prize-winning author is one of his most lucid and beautiful literary
expressions. Originally written as a prologue to a "state of the
nation" analysis recently published by a group of eminent Colombian
thinkers, it drafts a virtual navigation chart for the future of
Colombia, affirming the country's vast human potential and
emphasizing the powers of education and national spirit. Four-color
photographs enliven this work.
News of a Kidnapping (1996) with Edith Grossman, Translator
This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez
chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all
but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The
carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort
from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics
traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they
were to surrender.
From the highest corridors of government to the domain of the
ruthless drug cartels, we watch the unfolding of a bizarre drama
replete with fascinating characters: César Gaviria, the nation's
cool and secretive president; Diana Turbay, a famous television
journalist and magazine editor; three indomitable women who are
imprisoned for miserable months in a small room with a light
perpetually on; an eighty-two-year-old priest with a mission to
bring the regime and the cartel to the negotiating table; and
Escobar himself, the legendary drug baron who changes his bodyguards
daily and maintains a private zoo with giraffes and hippos from
Africa.
All of this takes place in a country where presidential candidates
and cabinet officers are routinely assassinated; where police go
into the Medellín slums to murder boys they think may be working for
Escobar; but where brave and honest citizens are trying desperately
to make democracy survive.
An international best-seller, News of a Kidnapping combines
journalistic tenacity with the breathtaking language and perception
that distinguish the writings of Gabriel García Márquez. It draws us
into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great
García Márquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists--but that
continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.
Ages 4-8.
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