Gabriel García Márquez

"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...

A chronicle of the relationship between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza that spans over fifty-three years. One of the great hymns to the mysterious ways in which the human spirit transforms, and is transformed by, the tragedies and joys of carnal love.

A novel about the last days of General Simon Bolivar, the "Liberator of South America," during which he searches for a way to recapture his former glory and escape his impending death.

This anthology is a prelude to the writing of One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad).

"From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"--

"In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous presecriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see...

Cuentos que reflejan la brillante pluma de García Márquez y nos permiten adentrarnos en la psicología de los personajes.