Hundra år av ensamhet är en roman från 1967 av Gabriel García Márquez. Romanen anses vara García Márquez stora mästerverk. Den utkom på svenska 1970. Romanen handlar om den lilla isolerade colombianska byn Macondo och utspelar sig främst i familjen Buendias hus. Läsaren får följa byn och människornas öden under hundra …
Kärlek i kolerans tid är en roman av Gabriel García Márquez. Romanen, som publicerades 1985, handlar om olycklig förälskelse samtidigt som koleran härjar i Cartagena. Romanen filmatiserades 2007.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first …
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
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 …
No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so the people would read No …
At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the …
Vivir para contarla, är den första volymen i den colombianske författaren Gabriel García Márquezs självbiografi. Boken gavs ut på spanska 2002 och en engelsk översättning gavs ut året därpå. I boken beskrivs García Márquez liv från 1927 till 1950. Han beskriver sin skolgång, familj och tidiga karriär som journalist …
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 …
Patriarkens höst är en diktatorsroman av Gabriel García Márquez som utspelar sig i ett obestämt karibiskt land och skildrar en namnlös tyrann som blir omkring 200 år gammal. García Márquez påbörjade romanen 1968 och arbetade på den till 1975, när den utgavs i Spanien. Den är inspirerad av flera verkliga diktatorer som …