Most Popular Books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco González One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. 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. 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. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, started his literary career with the publication of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor . . . ''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia'' In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor''s amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Marquez''s first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970. ''The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. Reads like an epic'' Independent ''A master storyteller'' Daily Mail ''Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders'' Sunday Times

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. ''My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'' Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In the first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction. ''A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn''t find. A thrilling miracle of a book'' The Times ''A marvellous journey. Never less than a miracle'' Sunday Times ''Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do'' Salman Rushdie

One of the twentieth century’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, available in a special limited slip-cased edition. In 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude launched Gabriel García Márquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure in the Latin Boom, García Márquez was the most celebrated practitioner of the literary style that has become known as magic realism, and in 1982, received the highest literary achievement: the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called One Hundred Years of Solitude, “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes.” In the New York Times legendary critic John Leonard proclaimed, “with a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov.” And writer William Kennedy has hailed García Márquez’s masterpiece as, “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.” Over four decades after its publication, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains one of the most beloved and venerated books in world literature. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, it tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendía family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendías, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race. This special edition is a re-designed jacketed hardcover featuring colored endpapers in a beautiful, elegant slipcase.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. ''The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself ''a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent''. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his ''Delgadina'' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . ''Márquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller'' Daily Mail ''Márquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic'' Tatler ''Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do'' Salman Rushie

Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. ''An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December'' When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero''s doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva María, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva María appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it''s not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town''s woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcizing the evil spirit recognises the girl''s sanity, but can he convince the town that it''s not her that needs healing? ''Superb and intensely readable'' Time Out ''A compassionate, witty and unforgettable masterpiece'' Daily Telegraph ''At once nostalgic and satiric, a resplendent fable'' Sunday Times

A CLASSIC STORY OF ENDURING LOVE FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ''One of the greatest love stories I have ever read'' Oprah, featured in Oprah''s Book Club _______________________________ ''It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'' Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza''s impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. When Fermina''s husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? _______________________________ ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton ''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph ''An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women'' The Times

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.

Gabriel García Márquez''s News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. ''She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her'' Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellín cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President''s determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, and from their harrowing stories Márquez retells, with vivid clarity, the terror and uncertainty of those dark an volatile months. ''Reads with an urgency which belongs to the finest fiction. I have never read anything which gave a better sense of the way Colombia was in worst times'' Daily Telegraph ''Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez''s fiction, hitting home rather harder'' Sunday Times ''A piece of remarkable investigative journalism made all the more brilliant by the author''s talent for magical storytelling'' Financial Times

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on'' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . . ''A masterpiece'' Evening Standard ''A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel'' The Times ''Brilliant writer, brilliant book'' Guardian

Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha'' The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer. ''Celebratory and full of strange relish at life''s oddness, the stories draw their strength from Márquez''s generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent'' William Boyd ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton ''Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself'' New Statesman

The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón Bolívar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena, and he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life'' At the age of forty-six General Simón Bolívar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the memories of what he has done and what he failed to do, Bolívar hopes to see a way out of the labyrinth in which he has lived all his life. . .. ''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph ''An imaginative writer of genius'' Guardian ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton

This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez''s earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.

Own fifteen of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s beloved books as ebooks, in the first Penguin Marquez ebook library. Includes: Memories of My Melancholy Whores Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Autumn of the Patriarch Strange Pilgrims News of a Kidnapping The General in His Labyrinth No One Writes to the Colonel Of Love and Other Demons Collected Stories Leaf Storm Living to Tell the Tale

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Sang Jenderal di Dalam Labirinnya (The General In His Labyrinth) “Sang Jenderal di Dalam Labirinnya” adalah novel Gabriel Garcia Márquez yang paling politis, memaparkan kisah tragis Jenderal Simón Bolívar yang berusaha menyatukan sebuah benua. Di enam negeri Amerika Latin, Bolívar dikenal sebagai El Libertador, sang Pembebas, salah satu pahlawan yang paling dihormati di belahan dunia barat; dalam novel ini dikisahkan tentang Bolívar yang melakukan perjalanan terakhirnya pada tahun 1830 dari Sungai Magdalena menuju laut, menapaktilasi tempat-tempat dia pernah memperoleh kejayaan, sambil meratapi impiannya yang pupus tentang negeri-negeri Amerika bersatu. Meski sudah disingkirkan dari kekuasaan, diintai para pembunuh, fisiknya ringkih dan menua sebelum waktunya akibat penyakit fatal, sang Jenderal masih tetap sosok yang sangat berapi-api dan tak bisa ditebak. Tekad kuatnya inilah yang dulu membuatnya memperoleh sekian banyak kemenangan di medan tempur dan menaklukkan hati banyak perempuan. Menjelang akhir hayatnya, sang Jenderal berkelana di dalam labirin kenangan masa lalu yang masih sedemikian kuat melekat di benaknya, di tengah puing puing kekuasaannya. Judul : Sang Jenderal di Dalam Labirinnya (The General In His Labyrinth) Penulis : Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rating : Semua Umur Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama Tanggal Terbit: 18 Januari 2021 Tebal: 304 halaman ISBN: 9786020639109 Berat: 250 gram Dimensi: 21 cm x 14 cm

Dua belas kisah luar biasa dalam buku ini ditulis oleh seorang penulis kenamaan Amerika Selatan, Gabriel García Márquez , pemenang hadiah Nobel Sastra 1982 dengan karya yang sangat terkenal, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Ia juga mengarang buku terlaris internasional, Love in the Time of Cholera. Kisah-kisah tersebut berlatar belakang Eropa kontemporer, menceritakan pengalaman-pengalaman ganjil dan menakjubkan yang menimpa orang-orang Amerika Latin yang berkunjung atau tinggal di luar negeri. Sekali lagi, lewat karyanya yang menegangkan ini, Gabriel García Márquez mengajak kita ke dalam dunia yang indah dan magis, yang akan membuat kita tak berhenti terpesona. Gabriel García Márquez lahir di Aracataca, Colombia, pada 1928. Dia melanjutkan studi ke University of Bogota dan kemudian bekerja sebagai reporter untuk surat kabar Kolombia El Espectador dan sebagai responden asing di Roma, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, dan New York. la menulis banyak novel dan kumpulan cerita pendek, termasuk di antaranya adalah No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The General in His Labyrinth. Sinopsis Buku Para Peziarah yang Janggal adalah kumpulan dua belas cerita pendek tentang kehidupan orang-orang Amerika Latin di Eropa. Di dalamnya, García Márquez bertutur tentang kemuraman, kegigihan, duka lara, dan aspirasi dalam menjalani kehidupan di negeri asing. Di Barcelona, seorang pelacur Brazil yang mulai uzur melatih anjing-anjingnya untuk menangis di makam yang telah dipilihnya untuk dirinya sendiri. Di Vienna, seorang wanita mencari nafkah dengan menjual mimpi-mimpinya. Di Jenewa, seorang sopir ambulans dan istrinya memberikan bantuan kepada mantan Presiden yang kesepian dan sekarat, tetapi sang mantan Presiden ternyata masih sangat ambisius. Dan terdapat cerita-cerita lainnya. Sekali lagi, lewat karyanya yang menegangkan ini, Gabriel García Márquez mengajak kita ke dalam dunia yang indah dan magis, yang akan membuat kita tak berhenti terpesona