Gabriel García Márquez

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

Crease on corner of front cover. Wear on edges. Book is clean.

Texas

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband's funeral. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Edith Grossman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Bitten by a rabid dog in colonial South America, twelve-year-old Sierva Mari+a7a is sent to a convent to endure torturous therapies and meets bookish Father Cayetano Delaura, with whom she shares a doomed affair. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

Of Love and Other Demons

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Sierva Maria, the neglected child of a rich plantation family, is locked in a convent because she is believed to be possessed by demons, and there she falls in love with the priest sent to exorcise her. Reprint.

Washington

Recounts the turbulent life of the great Simon Bolivar.

The General in His Labyrinth

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel. 250,000 first printing.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Anne McLean

South Carolina

A Novel

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.

Until August

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Good condition, just mild wear including a crease on the back cover. No markings in the text. 

Minnesota

Twelve stories recount the peculiar experiences of Latin Americans visiting or residing in Europe

Strange Pilgrims

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#paperback #twenty-sixshortstories #fiction 

Pennsylvania

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

Collected Stories

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Juán Rulfo

Douglas J. Weatherford

Juan Rulfo

Margaret Sayers Peden

Susan Sontag

Colorado

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.

Pedro Paramo

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The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal that foreshadowed and influenced the rise of "magical realism" in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. Juan Preciado swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the ghost town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo with the voices of tormented spirits that share the secrets and traumas of the past. There emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Rulfo's only novel is an uncannily beautiful story of love and the everlasting echoes of the dead. Although initially published to a quiet reception, it was soon recognized as a major novel that has served as a touchstone text for writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Sergio Pitol. Now published in a new translation by celebrated Rulfo scholar Douglas J. Weatherford, in this new edition Pedro Páramo cements its place as one of the must-read literary texts of the twentieth century.

The author traces his life from his birth in 1927 to his 1950 proposal to his wife, discussing such topics as his love for Colombia, the impact of literature and music on his life, and how his written works reflect his life.

Living to Tell the Tale

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Randolph Hogan

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Translated by Randolph 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 in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. "A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man's struggles against the sea."--Philadelphia Inquirer

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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 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 in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.

Translated by Randolf Hogan.

Gregory Rabassa

A novella and eleven short stories, representing early and recent work by the acclaimed Columbian author, provides further proof of his imaginative and technical exuberance and mastery.

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

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A novella and eleven short stories, representing early and recent work by the acclaimed Columbian author, provides further proof of his imaginative and technical exuberance and mastery

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New Jersey

Leaf Storm; No One Writes to the Colonel; Chronicle of a Death

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.

Collected Novellas

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No marks no highlights. My favorite story in here is “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” 🥹

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

And Other Stories

Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo

Leaf Storm

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Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa

Francisco Goldman

Asa Zatz

There’s writing along the margins of pages. 
Bought used. 

New York

La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile se trata de la historia de la dificultad de contar la verdad en el Chile durante la dictadura Augosto Pinochet.

La Aventura de Miguel Littin

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The Adventures of Miguel Littin

In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he’d been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet’s benighted Chile—a film that would capture the world’s attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye. Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel García Márquez sat down with Littín to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, García Márquez wrote it down. Clandestine in Chile is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.

Clandestine in Chile

Textos en Prensa y Revistas (1950-1984)

Dejó muy claro Gabriel García Márquez que el periodismo siempre fue su principal pasión, la más perdurable y por la que quiso ser recordado: "No quiero que se me recuerde por Cien años de soledad, ni por el premio Nobel, sino por el periódico. [...] Nací periodista y hoy me siento más reportero que nunca. Lo llevo en la sangre, me tira".

Esta antología pretende ser la muestra más representativa de la tensión narrativa entre periodismo y literatura que recorrió toda su trayectoria como reportero. Cubriendo cuatro décadas, este delicioso viaje a través de medio centenar de textos muestra como "el mejor oficio del mundo" está en el corazón de la obra del premio Nobel colombiano.

Con edición a cargo de Cristóbal Pera y prólogo de Jon Lee Anderson, este volumen contiene piezas tan indispensables como los reportajes escritos desde Roma sobre la muerte de una joven italiana, suceso que permitió al autor pintar un fresco incomparable de las élites políticas y artísticas del país en un marco de novela policiaca, crónicas sobre la vida tras el "telón de acero", sobre la trata de blancas desde París hasta América Latina o apuntes sobre Fidel Castro o Pío XII. Encontramos también fragmentos tempranos en los que aparecen por primera vez las familias Buendía y Aracataca, junto con artículos que contemplan la política, la sociedad y la cultura bajo la luz sólida, profunda y experimentada de ese gran contador de historias que siempre será maestro de periodistas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction.

"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."

El Escándalo Del Siglo

"¿Qué hago yo encaramado en esta percha de honor, yo que siempre he considerado los discursos como el más terrorífico de los compromisos humanos?" --Gabriel García Márquez
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Los textos que Gabriel García Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leídos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete años para despedir a sus compañeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de España al cumplir ochenta años.
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Estos discursos del premio Nobel nos ayudan a comprender más profundamente su vida y nos desvelan sus obsesiones fundamentales como escritor y ciudadano: su fervorosa vocación por la literatura, la pasión por el periodismo, su inquietud ante el desastre ecológico que se avecina, su propuesta de simplificar la gramática, los problemas de su tierra colombiana o el recuerdo emocionado de amigos escritores como Julio Cortázar o Álvaro Mutis, entre otros muchos.
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; El lector tiene entra sus manos el complemento indispensable a una obra narrativa que nos seguirá hablando en un largo porvenir.

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"What am I doing here on this perch of honor, when I have always considered speeches the most terrifying of human obligations?"
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The speeches that Gabriel García Márquez has gathered in this collection were written by the author with the intention of being read by him before an audience, and span the course of nearly his entire life; from the first, a farewell written at seventeen to his fellow students at Zipaquirá, to his appearance before the Spanish-language Academies and the kings of Spain on his eightieth birthday.
Combined, these speeches provide a more profound understanding of the life of this Nobel Prize winner, revealing his fundamental creative and civil obsessions: his intense aptitude for literature and writing; his passion for journalism; his concerns over looming environmental dangers; his proposal for the simplification of grammar; the problems facing his beloved Colombian homeland; and the loving memory of fellow writers like Julio Cortázar and Álvaro Mutis, among many others.
In Yo no vengo a decir un discurso (I did not come to give a speech), the reader holds in his/her hands the essential complement to a body of work that will continue speaking to us for a long time to come.

Yo No Vengo a Decir un Discurso / I Did Not Come to Give a Speech

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Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The arrival of the banana company utterly transforms the small town of Macondo, and when the company leaves town as fast as it arrived, all the inhabitants are left with is a void of decay. In this devastated and soulless wasteland there is one last honourable man, the Colonel, who is determined to fulfil a longstanding promise.

Peter Matthiessen

David C. Cohen

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THE SPECTACULAR WORLD OF HUMAN RITUAL SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF OUR TIME — A STUNNING VISUAL CELEBRATION OF LIFE
"Editor David Cohen set out to chronicle an immense subject-rites of passage around the world— and he produced a volume of such wonder that Life has devoted (an) entire issue to it."
- LIFE
"Elaborately beautiful... The Circle of Life is a powerful affirmation of the way tradition, by linking our ephemeral lives with the more enduring human community, grants us all a certain measure of immortality."
- THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"The common ties that bind us all together ... beautiful, shocking, heartwarming rituals captured over eighteen months by top photographers in seventy-three countries."
- THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE
"In 1955, Edward Steichen organized 'The Family of Man,' an exhibition at the Muscum of Modern Art in New York, celebrating the essential oneness of humanity.' Steichen's show has since become a photojournalistic landmark. Now David Cohen, part of the former team that created the 'Day in the Life' series in the '80s, has updated the family album."
- AMERICAN PHOTO
"[This wonderfully upbeat celebration of the diversity of rituals and ceremonies the world over . . unites the human community."
- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"The differences and likenesses are fascinating and profound.... From the Veiled Prophet Ball in St.
Louis to a funeral in New Guinea, the book presents memorable images of life, death, and the high points in between."
- ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
"There are amazing images here... It's lovely to see how various the wide world is, and how familiar."
- THE MIAMI HERALD
"Brilliantly captures the essence of shared humanity."
- SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"A volume to be studied and cherished."
— THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
DAVID COHEN directed A Day in the Life of China and co-directed eight other Day in the Life books. He has received the American Society of Magazine Photographers' "Innovation in Photography Award," a silver medal from the Spanish government, and most recently a 1990 National Jewish Book Award. His Day in the Life of America is the largest selling photography book in history.
Cover design: Marc Tedeschi
Cover Photograph: Daniel Lainé/Actuel
HarperSanFrancisco

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Rituals from the Human Family Album

Rites of passage as they occur in cultures throughout the world.

The Circle of Life

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Pictures from the Human Family Album

Photos that celebrate rituals and ceremonial rites of passage from diverse cultures, showing a striking similarity of emotional depth and sense of tradition.

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