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«¿Qué hago yo encaramado en esta percha de honor, yo que siempre he considerado los discursos como el más terrorífico de los compromisos humanos?»Gabriel García MárquezLos textos que Gabriel García

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.' Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? "The most important writer of fiction in any language". (Bill Clinton). "An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny". (Sunday Telegraph). "An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women". (The Times). As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Collected Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, In the Evil Hour, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims.

''Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm.''Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. The Colonel and his family must bury the doctor, despite the inclination of their fellow inhabitants that his corpse be forgotten and left to rot.

Santiago Nasar morira. I gemelli Vicario hanno gia affilato i loro coltelli nel negozio di Faustino Santos. A Manaure, "villaggio bruciato dal sale dei Caraibi", lo sanno tutti: presto i fratelli della bella quanto svanita Angela vendicheranno l'onore di quella verginita rubatale in modo misterioso dall'aitante Santiago, ricco rampollo della locale colonia araba. Tutti lo sanno, ma nessuno fa alcunche per impedirlo: non la madre della vittima designata, non il parroco, non l'alcalde, neppure una delle numerose fanciulle che spasimano per il Nasar. E cosi la morte annunciata lo sorprende nel fulgore di una splendida mattinata tropicale. Ma non per agguato o per trappola: un destino bizzarro e crudele fa si che la fine di Santiago si compia per un concorso di fatalita ed equivoci, mentre gli stessi assassini fanno di tutto perche qualcuno impedisca loro l'esecuzione. Basato su un fatto reale, "Cronaca di una morte annunciata" venne pubblicato nel 1981 (un anno prima del Nobel a Garcia Marquez) e, pur nella brevita, rappresenta uno dei vertici della sua narrativa: un romanzo magistrale che sa fondere i toni della tragedia antica con il ritmo di una detective story in una grandiosa allegoria dell'assurdita della vita, l'apoteosi della fatalita.

''It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena, and he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life.'' In his younger days, Simón Bolívar swept the Span

Per cinquantun anni, nove mesi e quattro giorni Fiorentino Ariza ha perseverato nel suo amore per Fermina Daza, la piu bella ragazza dei Caraibi, senza mai vacillare davanti a nulla, resistendo alle minacce del padre di lei e senza perdere le speranze neppure di fronte al matrimonio d'amore di Fermina con il dottor Urbino. Un eterno incrollabile sentimento che Fiorentino continua a nutrire contro ogni possibilita fino all'inattesa, quasi incredibile, felice conclusione. Una storia d'amore e di speranza con la quale, per una volta, Gabriel Garcia Marquez abbandona la sua abituale inquietudine e il suo continuo impegno di denuncia sociale per raccontare un'epopea di passione e di ottimismo. Un romanzo atipico da cui emergono il gusto intenso per una narrazione corposa e fiabesca, le colorate descrizioni dell'assolato Caribe e della sua gente. Un affresco nel quale, non senza ironia, si dipana mezzo secolo di storia, di vita, di mode e abitudini, aggiungendo una nuova folla di protagonisti a una tra le piu straordinarie gallerie di personaggi della letteratura contemporanea.

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . .

EnLa mala hora, Gabriel García Márquez construye un inolvidable apólogo sobre la violencia colectiva.Al pueblo ha llegado «la mala hora» de los campesinos, la hora de la desgracia. La comarca ha sid

Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart.

''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.''In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor''s amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive.The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Marquez''s first major, and controversial, work, published in Colombian newspaper El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.

''César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He''d seen them at the movies on Sunday . . . '' Only moments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just kill

''Eréndira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow.'' In the title story of this collection of exotic and mystical tales, Eréndira accidentally burns down her grandmoth

The author was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood. This book recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe.

Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.''The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha''The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer.''Celebratory and full of strange relish at life''s oddness, the stories draw their strength from Marquez''s generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent'' William Boyd''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton''Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself'' New StatesmanAs one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping, No One Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, and The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.

Gabriel García Márquez declaró una y otra vez queEl otoño del patriarca es la novela en la que más trabajo y esfuerzo invirtió.García Márquez construyó, enEl otoño del patriarca, una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal -la agonia y muerte de un dictador- en forma ciclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, en seis bloques narrativos sin dialogos, sin puntos y aparte, repitiendo una anecdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes.Novela escrita en Barcelona entre 1968 y 1975,El otoño del patriarca deja asomar en su trasfondo el acontecimiento mas importante de la historia española de aquellos años, la muerte del general Franco, aunque su contexto y estilo sean, como siempre con Garcia Marquez, el de la asombrosa realidad latinoamericana, que el autor ha elevado una vez mas a la dignidad del mito.Durante el fin de semana los gallinazos se metieron por los balcones de la casa presidencial, destrozaron a picotazos las mallas de alambre de las ventanas y removieron con sus alas el tiempo estancado en el interior, y en la madrugada del lunes la ciudad desperto de su letargo de siglos con una tibia y tierna brisa de muerto grande y de podrida grandeza.Salman Rushdie dijo...El lenguaje de Gabriel Garcia Marquez es magico y lirico. No existe nadie que escriba como el lo hace.

La segunda novela del maestro colombiano, una historia de injusticia y violencia. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado, a mediados de los cincuenta, como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intencion de estudiar cine. El cierre del periodico para el que trabajaba le sumio en la pobreza mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que luego fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicacion. Tras el barroquismo faulkneriano de La hojarasca, esta segunda novela supone un paso hacia la ascesis, hacia la economia expresiva, y el estilo del escritor se hace mas puro y transparente. Se trata tambien de una historia de injusticia y violencia: un viejo coronel retirado va al puerto todos los viernes a esperar la llegada de la carta oficial que responda a la justa reclamacion de sus derechos por los servicios prestados a la patria. Pero la patria permanece muda... "El coronel destapo el tarro del cafe y comprobo que no habia mas de una cucharadita. Retiro la olla del fogon, vertio la mitad del agua en el piso de tierra, y con un cuchillo raspo el interior del tarro sobre la olla hasta cuando se desprendieron las

Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and The Sea of Lost Time, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.''The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-grey thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish. The light, was so weak at noon that when Pelayo was coming back to the house after throwing away the crabs, it was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that It was and old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn''t get up impeded by his enormous wings.''A celebration of one of the world''s most loved writers. Sixteen beautiful new editions, also available in ebook for the first time.