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Garcia Marquez Gabriel

The General in his Labyrinth

Editura: Everyman

Anul aparitiei: 2004

With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity - good and evil. Page dim. 213 x 136 x 21 Weight: 428 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

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. Page dim. 198 x 130 x 8 Weight: 100 grams

Garcia Marquez Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

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. Page dim. 199 x 132 x 24 Weight: 255 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Page dim. 199 x 129 x 27 Weight: 296 grams

Garcia Marquez Gabriel

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

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. Page dim. 199 x 129 x 9 Weight: 100 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

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. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 8 Weight: 96 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Page dim. 198 x 132 x 16 Weight: 176 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over... Page dim. 197 x 128 x 13 Weight: 140 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

News of a Kidnapping

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellin 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. Page dim. 195 x 128 x 19 Weight: 220 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

In Evil Hour

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a murder, everyone knows that the town is threatened by a malevolent presence, but is there anything the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do about it? Page dim. 198 x 129 x 12 Weight: 146 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

The General in His Labyrinth

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, 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. Page dim. 123 x 195 x 20 Weight: 216 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

No One Writes to the Colonel

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 6 Weight: 66 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Of Love and Other Demons

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

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 Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Page dim. 197 x 131 x 12 Weight: 132 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Collected Stories

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Introducing you to a host of extraordinary characters and communities, this book includes a collection of short stories written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 20 Weight: 216 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Leaf Storm

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 9 Weight: 102 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Living to Tell the Tale

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who 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. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Page dim. 199 x 129 x 31 Weight: 350 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

Love in the Time of Cholera

Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Page dim. 106 x 174 x 27 Series: Vintage International Weight: 214 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2018

Page dim. 130 x 177 x 14 Weight: 108 grams

Marquez Gabriel Garcia

The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Page dim. 128 x 197 x 29 Weight: 236 grams