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Quant fa 25 anys de la concessió del Premi Nobel de Literatura i 80 anys de la primera edició de Cien años de soledad, Belacqva edita l’obra en català.

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the dusty corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man laying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality.

'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night's revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs that have been cast against him. But with Angela's brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.

Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, brutal killer, terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. Ten relatives of Colombian politicians were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition.

‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’ Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.

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 with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love - and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.

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.

'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 ha

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. . .

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.

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.

'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.

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

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.

Personajes de la política, de la cultura o , simplemente, de la vida; libros, películas, ciudades visitadas y vividas; denuncias, recuerdos, miedos confesables -como a los aviones-, y la pregunta a la que se enfrenta todo escritor: ¿como se escribe una novela? Abra por donde abra estas Notas de prensa (1961-1984), el lector quedara recompensado con la lectura de los casi doscientos articulos breves que integran el quinto volumen de la obra periodistica de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Porque cada uno de ellos es una pequeña pieza magistral donde brillan la pluma agil, a la que nada escapa, de uno de los grandes escritores de la litearatura contemporanea. Originalmente publicado en 1991, la presente edicion para la Biblioteca Garcia Marquez incorpora seis nuevas notas, escritas entre1961 y 1973.

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?

El lector quedará recompensado con los casi doscientos artículos de este quinto volumen de la obra periodística de Gabriel García Márquez.Personajes de la política, de la cultura o, simplemente, de la vida; libros, peliculas, ciudades visitadas y vividas; denuncias, recuerdos, miedos confesables -como a los aviones-, y la pregunta a la que se enfrenta todo escritor: ¿como se escribe una novela? Abra por donde abra estas Notas de prensa (1961-1984), el lector quedara recompensado con la lectura de los casi doscientos articulos breves que integran el quinto volumen de la obra periodistica de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Porque cada uno de ellos es una pequeña pieza magistral donde brilla la pluma agil, a la que nada escapa, de uno de los grandes escritores de la literatura contemporanea.La presente edicion incorpora seis nuevas notas de prensa, escritas entre 1961 y 1973.