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One Hundred Years of Solitude 4 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Creative Mastery
I truly cannot remember the last time I have read something so imaginitive and insightful. While this book is sure to make you laugh, the wisdom imparted through hysterical and fantastic happenings is almost chilling at times. This book reminds me of Voltaire's "Candide," in that it takes a satirical tone towards the human race. A piece of advice: Definitely read this book at a time when you ...
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Oprah #59) 5 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2007
One of the best love stories ever told
This is my second favorite book of all time (the first is One Hundred Years of Solitude by the same author). It tells the story of lovesick Florentino, who has waited for the love of his life, Fermina, for 50 years. Fermina was married to Dr. Juvenal Urbino and therefore unavailable. Their love story began through letters. But then Fermina rejects Florentino because she feels their relationship ...
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Of Love And Other Demons (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)58 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996
Garcia Marquez is splendid!
This is one of the best books I have read from the best Latin American authors. If you know spanish, I recomend you read it in spanish since the language is better developed and the meaning of the story is deeper. I read it in spanish and after I began to read it, I could not stop.
Of Love and Other Demos is a master piece like other novels from my beloved Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)438 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage Books, 2007
Marquez at his best
For those who think of love as moonlight and roses, or are looking for a book filled with sentimental sweetness, this is not the novel for you. For those looking for a treatise on the manifold forms that love can take: passion, devotion, affection, tenderness, violence, complacency and understanding -- and how they inter-relate to the larger world of society, politics and religion, then give this ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)40 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
A book for all people.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is said to be a work so wonderful, It should be required reading for the entire human race, and I must say I completely agree. The novel follows the progression of the Buenida family and Macondo, the town that grows along with the people in it. As I read I felt as if I was with the family and was experiencing the same things the town was going through. Garcia ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude440 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
HarperCollins, 2003
Solitude is Life
There has been renewed interest in the work of the Nobel Prize winning Columbian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The keystone of his work is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" originally published in 1967. A reissue edition of the novel published in 2003 by Harper Collins and translated by Gregory Rabassa tells the story of several generations of residents of the fictional town "Macondo." Like ...
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Collected Stories11 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Stories by a Master
This collection of twenty six stories by Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez was first published as a whole in 1984, although the stories were previously published in three separate volumes. As a consequence, two translators are credited here: Gregory Rabassa for the stories from EYES OF A BLUE DOG and THE INCREDIBLE AND SAD TALE OF INNOCENT ERENDIRA AND HER HEARTLESS GRANDMOTHER, and J. S. Bernstein ...
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Cien años de soledad: Edición conmemorativa (The 40th Anniversary Edition)14 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Santillana USA Publishing Co., 2007
I don't know how one writer can have so many ideas
In this, his magnum opus detailing the historical arc of the Buendia family in the fictional near-Caribbean town of Macondo, Marquez is stupefyingly inventive and constantly violates the basic storytelling principle of "show, don't tell." That's a good thing, because if he didn't a book where so much happens would be three thousand pages long, in which case I wouldn't have the stamina to read it ...
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Memoria de mis putas tristes 50 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2004
Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes
Una novela muy corta y pecular como todas las obras de Garcia Marquez. El lenguaje muy simple para entender para alquien que no necesariamente lee obras en castellano. Great Work!
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold120 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2003
Great place to start with Marquez
I think this is an excellent book to start reading Marquez. The book is short enough to allow a hesitant reader to finish it and see the full effect of his work.
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Del Amor Y Otros Demonios18 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Plaza y Janes, 2006
Pequeños grandes personajes.
En el amor no importa la postura política, tampoco importan las diferencias sociales o la edad o la tradición, pareciera decir García Márquez. Pero no explicita. Simplemente pone en juego elementos contradictorios que se resuelven con la muerte. Describe minuciosamente las diferencias, los choques, las distancias que conviven en una cultura que se muestra homogénea ante los ojos del mundo, pero ...
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores104 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2006
The stranger at home
The pitfalls of consumerism: I had bought expensive tickets for uncomfortable seats in a concert of Lorin Maazel and his NY big band. They gave me Rossini, Mozart, and Brahms, and all was nice and as expected, and that was highly unsatisfactory, because we want to have our expectations exceeded.
So I went home grumbling and picked up this little book from my daughter's bookshelf. And then GGM ...
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The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)38 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Gabo's prose masterpiece
While it lacks the startling originality and narrative sweep of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this novel is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's masterpiece of prose. The story is good and the many surreal touches are magnificent and deployed to great political effect (the selling of the sea, for example, is an unforgettable image of impoverished nations selling their natural resources to wealthy nations ...
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Cronica de una muerte anunciada7 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2003
Simplemente Magica
La prosa y la manera tan descriptiva que Gabriel Garcia tiene para escribir este libro es simplemente magica. Es como una historia detectivesca metafisica, cuando todo esta predicho para la muerte del personaje principal 'Santiago Nassar'. Ciertamente esta historia me mantuvo al borde del suspenso hasta el gran climax de la historia que detalladamente describe la muerte que causa que no solo los ...
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CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD (Copntemporanea)6 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Plaza y Janes, 2006
A "must have" of Latinamerian literature
I read this book for many year and found it simply wonderful!! I have now bought it for a German friend that can speak and read good Spanish. This is a "must" of Latinamerican literature, beautifuly written, splenid story, with a touch of magic mixed with the real world. Gabriel Garcia Marques has been, together with Mario Vargas Llosa and a couple others, for the last twenty or thirty years one ...
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Doce cuentos peregrinos 8 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2006
Pura magia
Un gran libro de cuentos, lleno de sorpresas. Lo maravilloso es darse cuenta de cómo lo más simple y absurdo puede convertirse en algo mágico o trascendental, como si descubriéramos el envés de la realidad a través de la mirada de García Márquez.
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Cien Años de Soledad66 reviews
Gabriel García Márquez
Catedra, 2006
The day that the magic realism invaded the literature!
What definitively marked this subduing novel throughout the Pantheon of the immortality was to have got the perfect balance between an organic depicting coherence and a winged concatenation of fevered delirium; the accurate involvement between Eros and Psyche, that invisible sensation of getting into a new universe of unlimited possibilities, where we agree to become accomplices of this master of ...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)244 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Perennial, 2004
Reminds Me of America's Keenest City, by Mongo
This is a marvelous book that remind's me in both style and message of America's Keenest City, by Mongo. I would recommend that if you like Marquez, you should read Mongo also. Both books use surrealism to expose political and cultural phenomena. Marquez enlightens us about Latin America and Mongo about North America.
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Living to Tell the Tale48 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2004
Delightful trip
This book had me traveling over the time, places, aromas and dreams. I enjoyed it.
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor15 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 1989
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
The story of a shipwrecked sailor is an adventerous encounter by a man whose will to live and whose bravery help inspire all r eaders.
This book is difficult to put down because every paragraph is a new adventure.
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