“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.” - One Hundred Years of Solitude
RIP Gabriel García Márquez: a historian, a cultural commentator, an incurable romantic, and a man incapable of writing a bad sentence.
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Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968628
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968567
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR200.00
ISBN: 9780241968772
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
The author 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 and the memories of his Colombian childhood. This book recounts his personal...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968543
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968642
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR160.00
ISBN: 9780241968765
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR180.00
ISBN: 9780241968604
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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.
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968734
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968581
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built.
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968697
Format: Paperback
Published: March 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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968710
Format: Paperback
Published: March 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...
Recommended Retail PriceR45.00
ISBN: 9780241969588
Format: Trade paperback
Published: March 2014
Contains two magical realist short stories.
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968741
Format: Paperback
Published: March 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...
Recommended Retail PriceR200.00
ISBN: 9780241968758
Format: Paperback
Published: March 2014
Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, the author introduces a host of characters and communities in his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968635
Format: Paperback
Published: March 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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968727
Format: Paperback
Published: March 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...
Recommended Retail PriceR175.00
ISBN: 9780241968659
Format: Paperback
Published: December 2013
Includes twelve stories that tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; and an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog...
Recommended Retail PriceR180.00
ISBN: 9780141189208
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2007
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...
Recommended Retail PriceR180.00
ISBN: 9780141184999
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2007
From the moment Melquiades the Gypsy walks into the jungle settlement of Macondo nothing is ever the same again. He brings to this protected Eden knowledge and the tools of discovery. This is a modern parable told without moralizing, its...