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122 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983

Creative, Brilliant Novella - Absolutely Fascinating, Even After Repeated Readings Through the Years
Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, the year before Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The story begins with sentence: "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat that the bishop was coming on." We readers know from the beginning that Nasar will die today. Each of the five ...

Conversation in the Cathedral

10 reviews
Mario Vargas Llosa

Harper Perennial, 2005

A Latin-American masterpiece
When one of the best contemporary Latin-American authors says "If I could only save from the fire one of the novels I have written, I would save this one", you know that the experience of reading this work has to be invaluable. In this novel, the author explores, through the use of some fictional characters, the effects of the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria in Peru. One of the aspects that ...

Quincas Borba (Library of Latin America)

3 reviews
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Celso Favaretto

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

A masterpiece of world literature!
This is one of the best books I've ever read! The story of the ascencion and fall of a man, his sanity and madness, make us think about our human condition. Machado de Assis is undobted the best Brazilian writer.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Library of Latin America)

14 reviews
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Ahead of its time
Although most people identify Brazilian literature with the vivid regionalism of Jorge Amado or (more recently) the mystical blabber of Paulo Coelho, Brazilian critics have long hailed Machado de Assis as the country's greatest writer and with good reason. This book is vivid proof of Machado's genius: deeply perceptive of human nature as in much of his work, but also radically innovative in ...

What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?: A Novel
Antonio Lobo Antunes

W. W. Norton, 2008

A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? , set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde?a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic ...

Paradiso (Texas Pan American Series)

8 reviews
Jose Lezama Lima

Univ of Texas Press, 1988

A Universe in a book
This and a handful of other literary creations rank among the best of the 20th century. It is a dense, jungle of images, language, against an elegant background. I can not think of another work to compare Paradiso to, as it stands alone. Once upon a time, I attempted to read it in Spanish, but was overcome by a tidal wave of intricate vocabulary. It is unfortunate Lezama Lima has been ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

442 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

HarperCollins, 2003

dazzling panorama of life & death, love & loss, energy & dissipation
I first read this 33 years ago, while in college, and was utterly wowed at the sweep of these stories, all interlinked yet standing on their own. I was studying the classics - and in particular, oral history - so this was doubly fascinating as a streaming narrative of magical realism. Having re-read it for the first time, I was again astonished at the life and complexity on every page: you ...

In Evil Hour

14 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper & Row, 1979

The dawn of the dead
"In Evil Hour" is one of the early novels written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Published in 1962, it was previous to his "A Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Autumn of the Patriarch", some of his most famous novels and that consolidated his style. Considering that, one can say that this novel is really good. It is not as fine tuned as his best works, there is no Magical Realism in here -- ...

The Autumn of the Patriarch

38 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Avon Books, 1977

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 ...

62: A Model Kit

5 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Random House/Pantheon Books, 1972

Enter this labyrinth if you dare
The way in is through a looking-glass that is also a vampire-haunted castle and at the sa e time a city that is all cities. Be forewarned that once you have entered the Zone, you will never completely leave it. You will find yourself in its shadowed galleries, its furtive plazas, its unpredictable elevators, from time to time for the rest of your life. You will ask questions that will never be ...

Rosario Tijeras: A Novel

12 reviews
Jorge Franco Ramos

Seven Stories Press, 2005

Rosario Tijenas
From book's cover: "La violencia del narcoterrorismo enmarca esta historia de amor entre una hermosa pandillera, Rosario Tijeras y dos jóvenes de la alta sociedad. Una aventura narrada desde los corredores del hospital donde Rosario, llena de balas, se debate entre la vida y la muerte; y desde donde su incondicional amigo recuerda, mientras amanece, el tiempo loco que compartió con ella. ...

Leaf Storm (Harper Colophon Books)

3 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa

Harper Perennial, 1990

The book that started it all......
This wonderful book by GABO was the first one he wrote. So, it is very subject to the rules of writing. Later on the author would change completely to get the highest level at EL OTOñO DEL PATRIARCA, passing by "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE". The story is a killing that the author did not witness but that everybody in Colombia knew, and nobody talked about. Maybe because of fear for their ...

A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening: A Novel

12 reviews
Mário de Carvalho

Grove Press, 2001

An elegantly crafted novel
Mario de Carvalho's novel set in the fictional town of Tarcisis during the dying years of Marcus Aurelius reign as Emperor of the Roman Empire fully deserves the Pegasus Prize for Literature dealing as it does with a civic leader's attempt over a six month period to deal with several fundamental issues ending with the trial of fervent Christianity in a small town atmosphere that is itself under ...

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

6 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harper & Row, 1978

Magically Real and Entertaining
Eréndira is a dark fairy tale covered in the blanket of magic realism that has become Gabriel García Márquez's trademark. The story itself unfolds like a bizarre daydream that follows a 14 year old Eréndira as she is plagued by the "wind of her misfortune." It is this wind that causes Eréndira to burn down her grandmother's lavish villa. Upon seeing the ruin and ashes the Grandmother informs ...

Collected Stories

11 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa, ...

Harper Perennial, 1994

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 ...

Hopscotch (Panther)

39 reviews
Julio Cortazar

The Harvill Press, 1998

`There is no such thing as a general idea'.
`Hopscotch' is a series of journeys through interconnected lives. It is simultaneously a reminder that we each read the same words and form different conclusions. I have read `Hopscotch' twice: following the instructions provided by Mr Cortazar. I will read it again in the future when I will try to be less concerned about where I am going and more interested in why I am undertaking the ...

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