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.
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Full name: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez Date of birth: March 6, 1927 Place of birth: Aracataca, Colombia Died: April 17, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico 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
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...)
Book: I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 2010
Description: In this fascinating book, Gabriel García Márquez offers us twenty-two texts that he himself wrote to be read in public, a journey through his life and his thoughts. From his first speech, written at the age of seventeen to say goodbye to his classmates in Zipaquirá, to the emotional message he shared with the Language Academies and the kings of Spain when he turned eighty, each word resonates with the experience of a master of the letters.
These speeches, which reveal the essence of the Colombian... (keep reading...)
Book: Living to Tell the Tale
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 2002
Description: Enter the fascinating world of Gabo, a master of narrative who gives us his memory in Living to Tell the Tale.
This work is much more than a simple autobiography; is a journey through his childhood and youth, where the foundations of the imagination that would later give life to masterpieces such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold were forged.
In its pages, you... (keep reading...)
Book: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 1985
Description: "Love in the Time of Cholera" is a novel that masterfully presents a passionate and tragic love story that reveals the complexities of love over time, while offering us a deep and moving vision of human relationships.
The narrative focuses on Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, a beautiful young woman from high society, who fall in love as teenagers. However, despite this mutual love, the young girl decides to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, a respected and wealthy doctor.
However,... (keep reading...)
Book: No One Writes to the Colonel
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 1961
Description: The work No One Writes to the Colonel narrates the daily routine of an unnamed military man, a veteran of the last civil war, who has been waiting in vain for fifteen years for the official confirmation of the pension that corresponds to him.
The colonel and his wife, who suffers from asthma, share an existence of extreme poverty, facing daily misery, disdain, and neglect; while they anxiously await the arrival of an official letter that responds to their rightful claim for the rights earned through... (keep reading...)
Book: Of Love and Other Demons
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 1994
Description: On a seemingly ordinary day in 1949, journalist Gabriel García Márquez is tasked with investigating the emptying of the crypts of an old convent to make way for the construction of a luxury hotel.
He is surprised by the primitive and rudimentary way in which the task is carried out, where the mortal remains of illustrious figures are unearthed, carefully separating bones and valuable objects. Among the deceased were prominent figures such as a viceroy, a bishop, abbesses, among others.
However, the... (keep reading...)
Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 1967
Description: This masterpiece of magical realism tells the story of the Buendía family over seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo —beginning with the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía and his cousin and wife Úrsula Iguarán—, blending fantasy and reality.
The plot focuses on the main characters, such as José Arcadio Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, Aureliano Buendía and Amaranta, and shows how the family's destiny is intrinsically linked to the development of the town. Throughout the novel, love... (keep reading...)
Book: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publishing year: 1982
Description: «The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made Rich Through Publicity, and Then Spurned by the Government and Forgotten for All Time» is the full title of this novelized report written by a then young journalist Gabriel García Márquez.
The story arose when Luis Alejandro Velasco, the only survivor of the destroyer Caldas that sank in the Caribbean Sea, showed up at... (keep reading...)
More featured books of the author:
- Gabo Periodista
- Leaf Storm
- News of a Kidnapping
- Ojos de Perro Azul
- Strange Pilgrims
- The Autumn of the Patriarch
- The Fragrance of Guava
- The General in His Labyrinth