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'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her factory work, 'Delgadina' sleeps peacefully whilst he watches her quietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for her deepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passion and the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the local newspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpourings the enlivening and transformative power of love.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing" (Los Angeles Times). On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist-an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor-decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." The virgin, whom an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying-not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.

"L'anno dei miei novant'anni decisi di regalarmi una notte di amore folle con un'adolescente vergine." Comincia così il nuovo romanzo di Gabriel Garcia Márquez, il libro con cui il premio Nobel colombiano torna dopo dieci anni alla narrativa. A raccontare è la voce dell'anziano protagonista, un giornalista eccentrico e solitario, che accanto a un'adolescente scopre il piacere inverosimile di contemplare il corpo nudo di una donna che dorme "senza le urgenze del desiderio o gli intralci del pudore". Scopre forse per la prima volta l'amore, quello che non ha mai cercato in tutte le donne che ha incontrato e conosciuto, trovando "l'inizio di una nuova vita a un'età in cui la maggior parte dei mortali è già morta".

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Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart.But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

La primera novela de Gabriel García Márquez en diez años."El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor loco con una adolescente virge. Me acordé de Rosa Cabarcas, la dueña de una casa clnadestina que solia avisar a sus buenos clientes cuando tenia una novedad disponible. Nunca sucumbi a esa ni a ninguna de sus muchas tentaciones obscenas, pero ella no creia en la pureza de mis principios. Tambien la moral es un asunto de tiempo, decia, con una sonrisa maligna, ya lo veras."

He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez begins to tell the story of his life.Living to Tell the Tale spans Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the beginning of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It is a tale of people, places and events as they occur to him: family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia, parts of his history until now undisclosed and incidents that would later appear, transmuted and transposed in his fiction. A vivid, powerful, beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Marquez as a writer and as a man.

Lanno dei miei novantanni decisi di regalarmi una notte di amore folle con unadolescente vergine. Comincia così il nuovo romanzo di Gabriel Garcia Márquez, il libro con cui il premio Nobel colombiano torna dopo dieci anni alla narrativa. A raccontare è la voce dellanziano protagonista, un giornalista eccentrico e solitario, che accanto a unadolescente scopre il piacere inverosimile di contemplare il corpo nudo di una donna che dorme senza le urgenze del desiderio o gli intralci del pudore. Scopre forse per la prima volta lamore, quello che non ha mai cercato in tutte le donne che ha incontrato e conosciuto, trovando linizio di una nuova vita a unetà in cui la maggior parte dei mortali è già morta.

Diese Autobiographie ist uppiges Lesefutter. Ein Leben wie ein Roman. Erinnerungen an Kindheit und Jugend, an das Haus der Familie in Aracataca. Den Ort, der in "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" zur phantastischen Welt von Macondo wurde. Die ergreifende Liebesgeschichte der Eltern, die Gespensterwelt der Gromutter, Liebesabenteuer, Freundschaften furs Leben, die blutige Geschichte Kolumbiens und Garcia Marquez grote Leidenschaft die fur die Literatur. "Ein Klassiker zu Lebzeiten." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

In questo libro "Gabo", Gabriel García Márquez, ricrea e racconta un periodo fondamentale della sua vita, gli anni dell'infanzia e della giovinezza, quelli in cui si forma l'immaginario che, nel tempo, darà vita a "Cent'anni di solitudine" e tanti altri romanzi. L'autore fa rivivere gli anni trascorsi sulla costa caraibica della Colombia, a contatto con una realtà miracolosa in cui il magico era prima di tutto un elemento del quotidiano. Il lettore di García Márquez troverà l'eco delle storie e dei personaggi che hanno animato "L'amore ai tempi del colera", "Cronaca di una morte annunciata" e altri romanzi dell'autore.

Gabriel García Márquez' bedeutendster Roman und einer der schönsten der Weltliteratur: Bildhaft und anekdotenreich erzählt García Márquez die hundertjährige Familiengeschichte der Buendias - eine Ges

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in ten years and it fully lives up to the expectations of his critics, readers, and fans of all ages and nationalities. Memories of My Melancholy Whores introduces us to a totally new genre of Garcia Marquez's writing. It is a fairy tale for the aged - a story that celebrates the belated discovery of amorous passion in old age. This enticingly sensual yet at the same time innocent adventure tells of an unnamed second-rate reporter who on the eve of his ninetieth birthday decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. In a little more than 100 pages, Garcia Marquez proceeds to describe a series of encounters that is hypnotising and disturbing. When he first sees the chosen girl - a shy fourteen-year-old, whom he calls Delgadina - asleep, entirely naked, in the brothel room, his life begins to change completely. He never speaks to her nor does he learn anything about her, nor she of him. But her presence spurs the aged pensioner to recall his experiences with the other women in his life, all whores by profession, all paid to perform for him the acts of love. But now he realizes that 'sex is the consolation one has for not finding enough love'. Smitten, he screams of his love from the rooftops, which for him means writing about it in his weekly newspaper columns, and in return, he becomes the most famous man in his town. Love has always been a major theme in Garcia Marquez's writing. It is often visualized in his fiction as a source of endurance, a bulwark against the rush of time's passage. In Love in the Time of Cholera, he celebrated a love that was almost fifty years in forming, modelling it on the courtship of his own grandparents. This last novel, written at the peak of the author's fame, is another illustration of its tranformative power. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, written in Garcia Marquez's incomparable style, movingly contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love.

EnLa hojarasca nació Macondo, ese poblachón cercano a la costa atlántica colombiana que ya se ha convertido en una de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal.En Macondo transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extraño, un antiguo medico odiado por el pueblo, y un viejo coronel retirado, para cumplir una promesa, se ha empeñado en enterrarle ante la oposicion de todo el pueblo y sus autoridades. Como en una tragedia griega -el libro lleva como lema una cita deAntigona que recuerda la prohibicion de enterrar el cuerpo del Polinices-, el viejo coronel, su hija y su nieto van a cumplir la ominosa tarea. La accion, compuesta por la descripcion de los preparativos para el entierro -una media hora- y los recuerdos de un cuarto de siglo de la historia de Macondo, de 1905 a 1928, se narra a traves de los pensamientos de estos tres personajes.De pronto como si un remolino hubiera echado raices en el centro del pueblo, llego la compañia bananera perseguida por la hojarasca. Era una hojarasca revuelta, alborotada, formada por los desperdicios humanos y materiales de los otros pueblos: rastrojos de una guerra civil que cada vez parecia mas remota e inverosimil. La hojarasca era implacable.La critica ha dicho...Cuando de la barbarie no quede ni sombra de recuerdo, las obras de Garcia Marquez seguiran iluminando el corazon de multitudes con su destello inagotable.Ricardo Moreno,El Pais

In einer spannenden Reportage läßt Gabriel García Márquez den Filmregisseur und Allende-Anhänger Miguel Littín von seinen Abenteuern im Chile Pinochets erzählen. Als Exilchilenen ist es Littín verboten, in sein Heimatland zurückzukehren. Aber es gelingt ihm, und mit generalstabsmäßiger Planung täuscht er die allgegenwärtige Geheimpolizei. In einem aufregenden Katz- und Mausspiel dreht er einen 32.000 Meter langen Film über das Leben unter der Diktatur. "Spannender als ein Agentenroman." Der Spiegel

Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados. El doctor Juvenal Urbino lo percibió desde que entró en la casa todavía en penumbras, adonde habia acudido de urgencia a ocuparse de un caso que para el habia dejado de ser urgente desde hacia muchos años. El refugiado antillano Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, invalido de guerra, fotografo de niños y su adversario de ajedrez mas compasivo, se habia puesto a salvo de los tormentos de la memoria con un sahumerio de cianuro de oro.