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
p b THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF i LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA i AND i ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE i b br br 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 she travels here to the island where her mother is buried and for one night takes a new lover br br Amid sultry days and tropical downpours lotharios and conmen Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear that sits quietly at her heart br br Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual i Until August i is a profound meditation on freedom regret and the mysteries of love from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known br br br b No writer since Dickens was so widely read and so deeply loved as Gabriel Garcia Marquez Salman Rushdie br br One of the greatest visionary writers and one of my favourites from the time I was young Barack Obama br br Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez did just that i Guardian i b p
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."
'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 a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world… These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Márquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquiades excites Aureliano Buendia's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendia household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds... This new edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most celebrated novel is published to coincide with celebrations to mark the 80th birthday of this Nobel Prize winning author in 2007.
