Gabriel García Márquez

En el quincuaǧsimo aniversario de su publicaci̤n original, la Real Academia Espąola y la Asociaci̤n de Academias de la Lengua Espąola rescatan su edici̤n conmemorativa de esta obra maestra de la literatura del siglo XX. En 2007, coincidiendo con el octoǧsimo cumpleąos de Gabriel Garc̕a M̀rquez, la Real Academia Espąola y la Asociaci̤n de Academias de la Lengua Espąola prepararon esta edici̤n conmemorativa de Cien ąos de soledad publicada...

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...

Three classic short novels.

"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."--Page 4 of cover.

"Los textos que Gabriel García Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leidos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete años para despedir a sus compañeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de España al cumplir ochenta años. Estos discursos del...

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.

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.

In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal

Studies a murder which takes place shortly after a wedding and explores the mass community complicity that allowed it to happen.