While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that...
No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the...
'This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.' --The New York Times Book Review. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in...
A New York Times Notable Book. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love. As is his habit he asks a madam for her assistance. The girl who is...
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,...
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...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by...
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works. A brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Marquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly...
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...
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,...
