Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian journalist and author of novels, short stories and screenplays regarded as one of the most significant writers of the last century. He is renowned for popularising magic realism, a genre which inserts magical elements in otherwise realistic situations. Some of his most celebrated titles include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza’s impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino 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 Fermina’s 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?
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
By Gabriel García Márquez
Recommended by: Amor Towles
Publish Date: 1967
An epic tale which spans a hundred years of tumult and unrest in Latin America, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch built the once flourishing city of Macondo, now dilapidated and in…
