Books by Gabriel García Márquez

List with a summary of the featured bibliography of the author Gabriel García Márquez, with a brief synopsis of each recommended book.

Basic Data about the Author:

Full name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez

Date of birth: March 6, 1927

Died: April 17, 2014

Literary genres: Novels - Short Stories

Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts" as expressed by the Swedish Academy. His world-renowned novel is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.

Featured books

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Book: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Publishing year: 1981

Description: The Nobel laureate weaves a story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has rightfully earned the reputation as a master of magic realism. Despite being Chronicle of a Death Foretold maybe his most "realistic" novel it's also a structural masterpiece. It's amazing how a novel's plot is put together in a non-linear fashion and how Garcia... (keep reading...)

More featured books of the author:

  • Gabo Periodista
  • Leaf Storm
  • Living to Tell the Tale
  • Love in the Time of Cholera
  • News of a Kidnapping
  • No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Of Love and Other Demons
  • Ojos de Perro Azul
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Strange Pilgrims
  • The Autumn of the Patriarch
  • The Fragrance of Guava
  • The General in His Labyrinth
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
  • Yo No Vengo a Decir un Discurso

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