Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author . Knopf $25 (573p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4106-0
Since last October's long-awaited release of this first volume in a trilogy of García Márquez's memoirs, readers in Spain and Latin America have been wondering whether the book is fiction or nonfiction. Can one of the greatest...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author Alfred A. Knopf $13.95 (106p) ISBN 978-0-394-54810-4
In 1955, eight crewmen were cast overboard from the Colombian destroyer Caldas, en route to its home port of Cartagena from Mobile, Ala. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Velasco, told his adventures to Garcia Marquez, then working as a reporter for
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0322-2
In 1973, Chilean film director Miguel Littin was exiled during the turmoil that followed the assassination of President Salvador Allende. Twelve years later, disguised as an Uraguayan businessman, he returned to his country and spent six weeks ""maki
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-14-011990-9
In this chronicle of a unique love triangle, the Nobel laureate's trademark ``ironic vision and luminous evocation of South America'' persist. ``It is a fully mature novel in scope and perspective, flawlessly translated, as rich in ideas as in...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Gabriel Garca-A Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Penguin Books $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-025636-9
Marquez's tale of the love between a middle-aged priest and a young girl believed to be possessed by demons spent five weeks on PW's bestseller list.. (June)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Knopf $20 (115p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4460-3
García Márquez's slim, reflective contribution to the romance of the brothel, his first book-length fiction in a decade, is narrated by perhaps the greatest connoisseur ever of girls for hire. After a lifetime spent in the arms of...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A Knopf Inc $19.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-394-58258-0
Written in cogent, measured prose, moving to a somber internal rhythm, this short, historically based novel depicts the last days of Simon Bolivar, aka the Liberator of South America. Aged 46 in 1830, prematurely aged, weary and moribund, the...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A Knopf Inc $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-43853-3
The incantatory power of Garcia Marquez's prose is as potent as ever in this mesmerizing story inspired by an amazing event he witnessed almost 50 years ago, as a journalist observing the transfer of burial remains from the crypt of an old convent....
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $25.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-394-56161-5
The ironic vision and luminous evocation of South America that have distinguished Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning fiction since his landmark work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, persist in this turn-of-the-century chronicle of a unique love...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-40051-3
In October 1993, Mauja Pachon and Beatriz Villamizar, the wife and sister of a prominent Colombian politician, were taken hostage by Pablo Escobar, the billionaire don of the Medellin cocaine cartel. The story of their captivity, and of the...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $21 (188p) ISBN 978-0-679-42566-3
Exile and loss are the principal subjects of these 12 stories from the author of Love in the Time of Cholera , which capture with lyrical precision the emotions of disorientation and fear, coupled with a sense of new possibility, experienced by...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Penguin Books $14 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-023940-9
In 12 poignant stories, Garcia Marquez describes the turbulent lives of Latin Americans adrift in Europe. (Nov.)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, read by Thom Rivera. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, three CDs, 3 hrs., $24.95 ISBN 978-1-4829-3980-4
In Marquez’s novel, on his 19th birthday, a single man living alone in a decrepit mansion decides he wants to fornicate with a young girl. He solicits the help of the madam of the city’s best brothel, who procures for him the perfect subject, a 14-ye
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Eligio Garcia, Author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author Grupo Editorial Norma $23.4 (1p) ISBN 978-958-04-6073-2
Eligio Garcia Marquez (1947-2001) died of cancer three months after publishing this 630-page treatise on the making of Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was 17 years younger than his iconic brother, Gabriel Garcia Marquez....
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Gabriel García Márquez, trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Vintage, $14.95 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-101-91118-1
Though the late Nobel laureate García Márquez (1927–2014) professed discomfort with public speaking, as the title indicates, this collection demonstrates that he was still a powerful storyteller with the spoken as well as printed word. The talks are
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Gabriel García Márquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Knopf, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-65642-5
This incisive collection of journalistic pieces from the 1950s to the ’80s shows the acclaimed novelist and short story writer García Márquez (1927–2014) in his original guise, as reporter, which he called “the best job in the world.” Even in short-f
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