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García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, Love and Other Demons, and most recently Memories... Read More
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $13.00
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $13.00
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to... Read more >
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Of Love and Other Demons
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $13.00
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $13.00
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already... Read more >
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Cien años de soledad
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”.
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”.
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo... Read more >
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera (OPRAH #59))
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al... Read more >
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Memoria de mis putas tristes
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $12.95
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $12.95
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de... Read more >
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Cronica de una muerte anunciada
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $12.95
Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La... Read more >
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $12.95
A New York Times Notable Book
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $12.95
A New York Times Notable Book
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... Read more >
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $14.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
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Strange Pilgrims
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
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... Read more >
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Doce cuentos peregrinos
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de... Read more >
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $12.95
Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 13, 1989
Price: $12.95
Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach... Read more >
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Vivir para contarla
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
Pocos libros han despertado tanta expectación en todo el mundo como la autobiografía de Gabriel García Márquez, autor de Cien años de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, García Márquez nos habla de su infancia y primera juventud en Colombia, ofreciéndonos una crónica de los años... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
Pocos libros han despertado tanta expectación en todo el mundo como la autobiografía de Gabriel García Márquez, autor de Cien años de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, García Márquez nos habla de su infancia y primera juventud en Colombia, ofreciéndonos una crónica de los años... Read more >
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hardcover.
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News of a Kidnapping
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He... Read more >
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The General in His Labyrinth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Living to Tell the Tale
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 16, 1997
Price: $22.00
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: September 16, 1997
Price: $22.00
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love... Read more >
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1988
Price: $25.95
Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1988
Price: $25.95
Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude. Read more >
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El general en su laberinto
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
El general Simón Bolívar, “El Libertador” de los países de América del Sur, da, por última vez, un nostálgico viaje por el río Magdalena en el que vuelve a visitar ciudades en sus orillas donde revive sus triumfos, sus pasiones y las traiciones de toda una vida. Poseedor de un gran... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
El general Simón Bolívar, “El Libertador” de los países de América del Sur, da, por última vez, un nostálgico viaje por el río Magdalena en el que vuelve a visitar ciudades en sus orillas donde revive sus triumfos, sus pasiones y las traiciones de toda una vida. Poseedor de un gran... Read more >
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $25.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $25.95
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina... Read more >
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The General in His Labyrinth
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining he... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining he... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Memoria de mis putas tristes
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2004
Price: $18.95
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2004
Price: $18.95
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de... Read more >
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $27.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $27.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." Read more >
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Vivir para contarla
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2002
Price: $25.00
Vivir para contarla is the extraordinary story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s early life. It is a recreation of his formative years, from his birth in Colombia in 1927, through his evocative childhood to the time he became a journalist. The Nobel laureate offers us the memory of his childhood and adolescence... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2002
Price: $25.00
Vivir para contarla is the extraordinary story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s early life. It is a recreation of his formative years, from his birth in Colombia in 1927, through his evocative childhood to the time he became a journalist. The Nobel laureate offers us the memory of his childhood and adolescence... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1983
Price: $26.00
"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1983
Price: $26.00
"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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