Gabriel García Márquez
1) Until August
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
Author
Series
Letras hispánicas volume 215
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of the gradual modernization of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro P̀ramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro P̀ramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of P̀ramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cliff's Notes
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This history of a family is an amalgamation of Garcia Marquez's shorter fiction, American fiction, biblical parables, and quixotic experiences of his own unique life story. His is a community crowded with people and personal narratives, confusion, and progressive decline. The novel is a journey through life, caught on paper, so real that you'll swear you can smell it.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
Español
Description
Los hermanos Vicario contaban a todo el mundo su mortífero plan. El rumor se extendió; sólo Santiago Nasar no se enteró de nada. Lo matarán a la puerta de su casa al volver del puerto. ¿Nadie pudo evitar que se cometiera el crimen?
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
15) Edipo alcalde
Publisher
Zafra Video
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
Español
Description
Relocates Sophocles' tale of Oedipus to a strife-torn 20th-century Colombia. Edipo is the mayor of a town where he is trying to make peace between freedom-fighting guerrillas, drug cartels, paramilitary organisations, landowners and the government, while still trying to protect a civilian population. In the process he becomes romantically involved with a beautiful and wealthy landowner.