Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected. Instead Fermina marriesdistinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino, while Florentino can only wait silently for her.

He can never forget his first and only true love. Then, fifty-one years, nine months and four days later, Fermina's husband dies unexpectedly. At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has endured for half a century will remain unrequited, in a rich, fantastical and humane celebration of love in all its many forms.

Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989).

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. If you enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera, you might like Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer'Daily Telegraph'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women...

among Márquez's best fiction'The Times'The greatest luxury ... is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality ... the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers' Anne Tyler, author of The Accidental Tourist

"One Hundred Years of Solitudeis the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . .

. Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." William Kennedy,New York Times BookReview

One of the most influential literary works of our time,One Hundred Years of Solituderemains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitudetells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendifamily.

Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and womenbrimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soulthis novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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Καθισμένη μόνη δίπλα στα καταγάλανα νερά της λιμνοθάλασσας, η Άνα Μαγκνταλένα Μπαχ περιεργάζεται τους άντρες στο μπαρ του ξενοδοχείου. Έχει δύο παιδιά από έναν ευτυχισμένο γάμο εδώ και είκοσι επτά χρόνια από τον οποίο δεν έχει κανένα λόγο να θέλει να ξεφύγει. Κι όμως, κάθε Αύγουστο, ταξιδεύει με το φέρι μέχρι το νησί όπου είναι θαμμένη η μητέρα της, και για μια νύχτα βρίσκει έναν νέο εραστή. Μέσα σε αποπνικτικές βραδιές της Καραϊβικής, γεμάτες σάλσα και μπολέρο, η Άνα ταξιδεύει κάθε χρόνο πιο βαθιά στην ενδοχώρα του πόθου της και των φόβων της καρδιάς της.
Γεμάτο εκπλήξεις και συναισθηματισμό, το Τα λέμε τον Αύγουστο είναι ένας βαθύς στοχασμός πάνω στην ελευθερία, τη λύπη, την προσωπική μεταμόρφωση και τα μυστήρια της αγάπης· ένα απροσδόκητο δώρο από έναν από τους μεγαλύτερους συγγραφείς που έχει γνωρίσει ποτέ ο κόσμος.