Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys on kolumbialaisen Nobel-kirjailijan Gabriel García Márquezin romaani vuodelta 1967. Kirja on yksi García Márquezin pääteoksista ja latinalaisen Amerikan kirjallisuuden klassikko. Se on myös niin sanotun maagisen realismin tunnetuimpia edustajia. Kirja on käännetty 35 kielelle ja sitä on myyty …
Kuulutetun kuoleman kronikka on Gabriel García Márquezin tosipohjainen kaunokirjallinen teos vuodelta 1981. Se on ilmestynyt Matti Brotheruksen suomennoksena 1982. Márguez on käyttänyt kertomuksessa aineistona Miguel Reys Palencian elämää kirjan keskeisen henkilön Bayard San Románin kuvaamisessa. Palencia nosti …
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 …
Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez' life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his …
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 …