Gabriel García Márquez

Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a virgin, an elderly Colombian newspaper columnist falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he sees the young girl asleep

Publisher Annotation: An exceptional collection that brings together all the tales of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize. The reader will find the first stories that García Márquez published in Ojos de perro azul, including the "Monologue of Isabel watching the Macondo rain", the first reference to the imaginary place that would become the most recognized literary space of our time after the publication of 100 years of loneliness....

Publisher Annotation: Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Alma Guillermo Prieto prologue On the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language revive their commemorative edition of this masterpiece of 20th century literature. It belongs to the series ‘RAE and the ASALE Commemorative Editions. In 2007, coinciding with the eightieth birthday of Gabriel García Márquez, the...

A novella, The leaf storm, centers around the imaginary Colombian village of Macondo and the death of an infamous doctor. Six short stories are also included in this collection

Twelve stories that recount the experiences of Latin Americans visiting or living in Europe

The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.
In these twelve masterly stories about the...