Gabriel García Márquez
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Everyman's library volume 235
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English
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Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
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English
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Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez.«En agosto nos vemos es también otra prueba irrefutable de su talento, dedicación y amor por la literatura. Es una obra imprescindible. El broche final a una carrera y una vida únicas».Juan Cruz,El PeriódicoCada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas...
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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Español
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"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."--Page 4 of cover.
"An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him...
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Español
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El dià en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levanto ̀a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. Acaso sea Croǹica de una muerte anunciada la obra mas̀ realista de Gabriel Garcià Mar̀quez, pues se basa en un hecho histor̀ico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor. Cuando empieza la novela, ya se sabe que los hermanos Vicario van a matar a Santiago Nasar -de hecho, ya le han matado- para vengar el honor...
Author
Series
The Love and Demons volume 37
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
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 he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I'm Not Here to Give a Speech records key events throughout the author's life, from a farewell to his classmates delivered when he was only seventeen to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Written across a lifetime, these speeches chart...