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More Gabriel García Márquez Titles

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit -- he has purchased hundreds of women -- he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.

Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

One Hundred Years of Solitude
The rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo is told through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, 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. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel.

The Autumn of the Patriarch
One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, this is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.

Of Love and Other Demons
The setting -- a South American seaport in the colonial era, a time of viceroys and bishops, enlightened men and Inquisitors, saints and lepers and pirates. Sierva Maria, believed to be possessed, is brought to a convent for observation. Father Cayetano Delaura, the Bishop's protege, is moved by this kicking, spitting, emaciated creature strapped to a stone bed. As he tends to her Delaura feels "something immense and irreparable" happening to him. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons haunts us with its evocation of an exotic world while it treats, majestically, of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.

In Evil Hour
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.

Living to Tell the Tale
In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, Márquez begins to tell us the story of his life. From his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife, it has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader -- a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer.

The General in His Labyrinth
Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in Garcia Márquez's reimagining he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolivar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations. Forced from power, dogged by assassins, and prematurely aged and wasted by a fatal illness, the General is still a remarkably vital and mercurial man. He seems to remain alive by the sheer force of will that led him to so many victories in the battlefields and love affairs of his past. As he wanders in the labyrinth of his failing powers -- and still-powerful memories -- he defies his impending death until the last.

Message Edited by Jessica on 10-05-2007 03:20 PM