TIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his...

"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...

"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." —Los Angeles Times
"A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times
An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's...

Martín Garrido acaba de mudarse a un apartamento cerca de la universidad en la que estudia. Poco tiempo después de llegar, empieza a recibir una serie insistente de llamadas de una empresa de mensajería que intenta ubicar a Alejandro Villabona. Al principio, Martín ignora las llamadas pensando que es una broma de uno de sus amigos, pero los hechos le muestran que no se trata de ningún chiste. Martín descubre que Villabona era el inquilino que...

"For the last fifty years, the Colombian drug cartels, various insurgent groups, and the government have fought over the control of the drug traffic, in the process destroying vast stretches of the Amazon, devastating Indian communities, and killing tens of thousands of homesteaders caught in the middle of the conflict. Inspired by these events, Jaime Manrique's sixth novel, Like This Afternoon Forever, weaves in two narratives: the shocking story...

A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.

Written just before "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness.

The novel El ruido de las cosas al caer (or, The noise of falling things) is set in Bogotá and covers a period in Colombian history ruled by the overwhelming presence of Pablo Escobar, the fearsome drug king who became one of the world's richest men during a lifetime of criminal activity.

Felipe es un adolescente bogotano que sueña con ser futbolista y con rodar películas de amor signadas por la tragedia. Pero anhela, por encima de todas las cosas, estar en una relación con su compañero de clase y de equipo de fútbol Leonardo. A tientas, guiado por su afecto, este joven de 16 años se abre camino por las sendas del primer amor, consciente de pertenecer a una sociedad que,cegada por sus prejuicios, se le dificulta dialogar con...

Aguilar returns home after a short business trip only to find that his wife, Agustina, has gone crazy. Having no idea what could have happened during his absence, and hoping to help her overcome this crisis, he begins to investigate, what he discovers are deep and disturbing facts hidden in the past of the woman he loves. -- Aguilar regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa, Agustina, se ha enloquecido completamente....