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EnLa mala hora, Gabriel García Márquez construye un inolvidable apólogo sobre la violencia colectiva.Al pueblo ha llegado «la mala hora» de los campesinos, la hora de la desgracia. La comarca ha sid

Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.''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''The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer.''Celebratory and full of strange relish at life''s oddness, the stories draw their strength from Marquez''s generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent'' William Boyd''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton''Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself'' New StatesmanAs one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping, No One Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, and The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor.

''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.''In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor''s amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive.The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Marquez''s first major, and controversial, work, published in Colombian newspaper El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.

«En la tercera hornacina del altar mayor, del lado del Evangelio, allí estaba la noticia. La lápida saltó en pedazos al primer golpe de piocha, y una cabellera viva de un color de cobre intenso se de

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?

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Per cinquantun anni, nove mesi e quattro giorni Fiorentino Ariza ha perseverato nel suo amore per Fermina Daza, la piu bella ragazza dei Caraibi, senza mai vacillare davanti a nulla, resistendo alle minacce del padre di lei e senza perdere le speranze neppure di fronte al matrimonio d'amore di Fermina con il dottor Urbino. Un eterno incrollabile sentimento che Fiorentino continua a nutrire contro ogni possibilita fino all'inattesa, quasi incredibile, felice conclusione. Una storia d'amore e di speranza con la quale, per una volta, Gabriel Garcia Marquez abbandona la sua abituale inquietudine e il suo continuo impegno di denuncia sociale per raccontare un'epopea di passione e di ottimismo. Un romanzo atipico da cui emergono il gusto intenso per una narrazione corposa e fiabesca, le colorate descrizioni dell'assolato Caribe e della sua gente. Un affresco nel quale, non senza ironia, si dipana mezzo secolo di storia, di vita, di mode e abitudini, aggiungendo una nuova folla di protagonisti a una tra le piu straordinarie gallerie di personaggi della letteratura contemporanea.

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

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba es un relato de prodigiosa intensidad y concisión, en el que la esperanza y el honor de su protagonista se encarnan en un gallo tan famélico como su amo, el viejo coronel dispuesto a comer excrementos hasta que sea reparada la injusticia de que ha sido objeto

Da José Arcadio ad Aureliano Buendía, dalla scoperta del ghiaccio alla decifrazione delle pergamene dello zingaro Melquíades: cent'anni di vicende di una grande famiglia i cui membri inseguono un destino ineluttabile. Con questo romanzo tumultuoso che usa i toni della favola, sorretto da un linguaggio portentoso e una prodigiosa fantasia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez ha saputo rifondare la realta e, attraverso Macondo, creare un vero e proprio paradigma dell'esistenza umana. In questo universo di solitudini incrociate, impenetrabili ed eterne, galleggia una moltitudine di eroi, protagonisti, secondo l'autore, di "un romanzo ideale, capace di rivoltare la realta per mostrarne il rovescio".

Miaat Am Mina Al- Ozla. Cien años de soledad (Árabe).

Cien años de soledad ,convertida en poco tiempo en un clásico de la moderna literatura en castellano,ofrece una aventura de lectura insustituíble.Proyectada como una descripción de la vida familiar de la casa donde transcurrio la infancia de Garcia Marquez,poco a poco, se convierte en una fabulacion magica,en morada de unos personajes ya legendarios inscritos en los mitos profundos de la cultura universal.En Macondo conviven lo real y lo cotidiano con lo poetico y lo imaginario.

Bajo el lema de estoa funerales mitológicos, Gabriel García Márquez reunió en 1962, en un breve volumen, siete relatos y la novela corta que le otorga el título, y en el que aparece ya en todo su esplendor el elemento magico y telurico que a partir de entonces definira su obra, sin apartarla, por ello, de la realidad. Estamos en Macondo y su region una vez mas, entre personajes y episodios reconocibles, en una serie de cuentos inolvidables -La siesta del martes, Un dia de estos, La viuda de Montiel, En este pueblo no hay ladrones, Rosas artificiales, La prodigiosa tarde de Baltasar, Un dia despues del sabado- pero aqui caen pajaros muertos sobre el poblado, rompiendo mosquiteros y alambras, un cura ve al diablo, o afirmar haber encontrado al judio errante y visitar la tumba de un ser querido supone un riesgo impredecible.