Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Recommended Retail Price R430.00
ISBN: 9780241686355
Format: Hardback
Published: April 2024
Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August,...
Recommended Retail Price R460.00
ISBN: 9780241703779
Format: Hardback
Published: April 2024
Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August,...
Recommended Retail Price R295.00
ISBN: 9780241444184
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2020
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Recommended Retail Price R295.00
ISBN: 9780241360880
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2018
For the first time, the speeches of prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez are translated into English and published together in a collected edition. These writings span Marquez's entire life: from his earliest days, speaking as...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241978924
Format: Paperback
Published: November 2016
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the...
Recommended Retail Price R380.00
ISBN: 9780241971826
Format: Hardback
Published: December 2014
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Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968727
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
In his younger days, Simón Bolívar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. Lonely, embittered and sickly, his power has dwindled and The Liberator enters the exile of...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968765
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the center of the town, the banana company arrived, pursued by the leaf storm.'
A blizzard of slums descends on Macondo; the inhabitants reel at the...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
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. But on Fridays the postman comes and he hopes he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968741
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
When a witch doctor prophesizes a plague of rabies, Marquis de Casalduero dismisses her claims - until he hears his daughter was bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.
She appears unscathed - but in a town...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968758
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerising tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers,...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968772
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house.'
Gabriel García Márquez was twenty-three when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca. In this first part of...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968635
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man laying dead on the floor can be the self...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968581
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Pipes herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo where José Arcadio Buendía and his wife have started their new life. Neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the gypsy...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968628
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home, where her humiliated mother beats her and her...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968567
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'
Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968697
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellín cartel. Terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
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 Price R245.00
ISBN: 9780241968642
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Whilst her demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. Exhausted, she collapses into bed, toppling over a glowing candle . . .
Her grandmother...
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ISBN: 9780241968710
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
'César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He'd seen them at the movies on Sunday . . . '
Moments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed....
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780241968659
Format: Paperback
Published: December 2013
'The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the Port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the Port of Riohacha'
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in...
Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780141189208
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2007
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Recommended Retail Price R275.00
ISBN: 9780141184999
Format: Paperback
Published: October 2007
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Recommended Retail Price R380.00
ISBN: 9781857152234
Format: Hardback
Published: September 1995
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