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Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizas impassioned advances and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Ferminas husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? This edition ties in to Mike Newell''s long-awaited film of Love in the Time of Cholera, starring Benjamin Bratt (Traffic), which is due for release in January 2008.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. I thought of Rosa Cabarcas, the owner of an illicit house who would inform her good clients when she had a new girl available. I never succumbed to that or to any of her many other lewd temptations, but she did not believe in the purity of my principles. Morality, too, is a question of time, she would say with a malevolent smile, you''ll see. She was a little younger than I, and I hadn''t heard anything about her for so many years that she very well might have died. But after the first ring I recognized the voice on the phone, and with no preambles I fired at her: "Today''s the day." She sighed: Ah, my sad scholar, you disappear for twenty years and come back only to ask for the impossible. She regained mastery of her art at once and offered me half a dozen delectable options, but all of them, to be frank, were used. I said no, insisting the girl had to be a virgin and available that very night. She asked in alarm: What are you trying to prove? Nothing, I replied, wounded to the core, I know very well what I can and cannot do. Unmoved, she said that scholars may know it all, but they don''t know everything: The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Why didn''t you give me more time? Inspiration gives no warnings, I said. But perhaps it can wait, she said, always more knowledgeable than any man, and she asked for just two days to make a thorough investigation of the market. I replied in all seriousness that in an affair such as this, at my age, each hour is like a year. Then it can''t be done, she said without the slightest doubt, but it doesn''t matter, it''s more exciting this way, what the hell, I''ll call you in an hour. I don''t have to say so because people can see it from leagues away: I''m ugly, shy, and anachronistic. But by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite. Until today, when I have resolved to tell of my own free will just what I''m like, if only to ease my conscience. I have begun with my unusual call to Rosa Cabarcas because, seen from the vantage point of today, that was the beginning of a new life at an age when most mortals have already died. I live in a col

Whilst her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over… Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Eréndira must repay her for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Eréndira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?

‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’ Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.

As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the dusty 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-styled General of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality.

The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers'' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples'' refusal to depart from routine.

Quant fa 25 anys de la concessió del Premi Nobel de Literatura i 80 anys de la primera edició de Cien años de soledad, Belacqva edita l’obra en català.

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

Por primera vez en España, en un volumen exclusivo, la crónica de los viajes de un joven Gabriel García Márquez por los paísessocialistas. Un reportaje periodístico tan extraordinario comoRelato de un naufrago. Yo no queria conocer una Union Sovietica peinada para recibir una visita.A los paises, como a las mujeres, hay que conocerlos acabados delevantar.Gabriel Garcia Marquez De viaje por Europa del Estees la cronica testimonial del viaje que realizo un joven Gabriel Garcia Marquez por los paises socialistas en los años cincuenta. En sus paginas el lector encontrara, junto a las observaciones de sus compañeros de viaje, un analisis perspicaz y no exento de ironia de los acontecimientos sociales y politicos de una epoca. Su viaje por el enclave comunista arranca en la Alemania Oriental y prosigue por Checoslovaquia, Polonia, Hungria y la antigua Union Sovietica. Alli intentara desvelar la verdadera cara del comunismo ideado por Lenin: un regimen kafkiano apenas cuestionado por un pueblo asustado que parece resignarse a su destino. Escrito y publicado por entregas en la misma epoca que el legendario Relato de un naufrago, este reportaje es otro ejemplo impagable de arduo trabajo de investigacion, rigor historico y fidelidad a los hechos narrados, pilares todos del periodismo de calidad. Con su indiscutible maestria literaria, Gabriel Garcia Marquez demuestra una vez mas su vocacion profunda: el placer de contar una buena historia.La critica ha dicho: Garcia Marquez aprendio del periodismo el arte de contar historias, demostrandose a si mismo que era un extraordinario maestro del ritmo, la sorpresa y la estructura.The Guardian Un relato muy garciamarquecino, con buen ojo y mejor prosa para mostrar los detalles de un mundo a veces esperpentico y casi siempre terrible. ABC CulturalContar, contar, contar donde la clave era el como. Asi convirtio el periodismo en un campo de pruebas o feliz encuentro entre el periodismo basado en lo real y veridico y el estilo literario y sus tecnicas para seducir al lector. Jon Lee Anderson

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La primera novela de Gabriel García Márquez en diez años."El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor loco con una adolescente virgen. Me acordé de Rosa Cabarcas, la dueña de una casa clandestina que solia avisar a sus buenos clientes cuando tenia una novedad disponible. Nunca sucumbi a esa ni a ninguna de sus muchas tentaciones obscenas, pero ella no creia en la pureza de mis principios. Tambien la moral es un asunto de tiempo, decia, con una sonrisa maligna, ya lo veras."