Gabriel García Márquez
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
The Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author recalls his childhood and youth, and recounts the family stories retold by his relatives, revealing the origins of many of the incidents he incorporated into his work.
El premio Nobel colombiano ofrece la memoria de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundiría el imaginario que, con el tiempo, daría lugar a algunos de los relatos y novelas fundamentales en la literatura en lengua española...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo. Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras Más información...literarias mas fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares deCien anos de soledadleidos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando...
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c1990
Language
English
Description
General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
"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."--Inside dust jacket.
An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque...
15) Bai nian gu ji
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
諾貝爾文學獎大師最膾炙人口的代表作！...
16) Tiempo del morir
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the 20th century, youthful romantic Florentino Ariza spots the stunning and sheltered Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. Denied by her father, Florentino refuses to give up his dreams of winning her hand-- even if that means waiting decades to fill the passion in his heart" -- Container.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
