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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.






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Love in the time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez - Publisher : Vintage Books

The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. Both Florentino and Fermina fall in love with each other in their youth. A secret relationship blossoms between the two with the help of Fermina's Aunt Escolástica. They exchange several love letters. However, once Fermina's father, Lorenzo Daza, finds out about the two, he forces his daughter to stop seeing Florentino...
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During a travel

Autumn

To my male lover

fairly easy to read

Classic modern

Less than 10$

A few days









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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez - Publisher : HarperCollins 

One Hundred Years of Solitude is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula Iguarán, his wife (and first cousin), leave Riohacha, Colombia, to find a better life and a new home. One night of their emigration journey, while camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of Macondo, a...
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To not die of boredom

Autumn

For all

fairly easy to read

Classic modern

Less than 10$

At least one month









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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel García Márquez - Publisher : Vintage Books

Publisher presentation: on the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet...
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For the week-ends

Spring

To my friends

fairly easy to read

Contemporary

Less than 10$

A few hours









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Of Love and Other Demons

Gabriel García Márquez - Publisher : Penguin Group

Publisher presentation: On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As...
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To not die of boredom

Winter

To my sister or brother

fairly easy to read

Contemporary

Less than 10$

A few days






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