Gabriel García Márquez

Honderd jaar eenzaamheid is een roman van de Colombiaanse Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez, in het Nederlands vertaald door C.A.G. van den Broek. Het boek is een kroniek van de familie Buendía, waarvan de stamvader het stadje Macondo stichtte. Over verschillende generaties heen wordt de familiegeschiedenis van …

Liefde in tijden van cholera is een roman van de Colombiaanse Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez. Het boek is voor het eerst uitgegeven in 1985 en gaat over een onmogelijke liefde tussen twee mensen, Florentino Ariza en Fermina Daza. Hoofdthema in het boek is liefde, maar ook ouderdom en eenzaamheid. Plaats van …

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first …

Herinnering aan mijn droeve hoeren is een novelle uit 2004 van de Colombiaanse Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez, in het Nederlands vertaald door Mariolein Sabarte Belacortu.

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 …

No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so the people would read No …

At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the …

Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez' life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his …

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a …

The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975. A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the …