No One Writes to the Colonel (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

No One Writes to the Colonel (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

Living to Tell the Tale (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best works. This reflective and atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel, a

Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Pevná vazba)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. This book deals with his work and

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

The Autumn of the Patriarch (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

One of Gabriel Garc a M rquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

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

Strange Pilgrims (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our

Leaf Storm (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

News of a Kidnapping (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

Collected Stories (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Introducing you to a host of extraordinary characters and communities, this book includes a collection of short stories written by Gabriel Garcia

Autumn of the Patriarch (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

Land at the End of the World (Lobo Antunes Antnio)(Paperback)

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the twentieth century s most original literary voices offers kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

In Evil Hour (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

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

Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a

White Castle (Pamuk Orhan)(Paperback / softback)

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and

Magic(al) Realism (Ann Bowers Maggie)(Paperback)

Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has been variously defined as 'magic', 'magical' or 'marvellous' realism and is quickly becoming a core

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny

No One Writes Back (Eun-Jin Jang)(Paperback)

Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the