Bøker av Gabriel García Márquez

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk.

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDESitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, and the mysteries of love, from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.'No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez' Salman Rushdie'One of the greatest visionary writers - and one of my favourites from the time I was young' Barack Obama'Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that' Guardian

Romanen er historien om familien Buendia og den colombianske landsbyen Macondo. Vi følger landsbyens og familiens historie gjennom 100 år, og fortellingen blir til det colombianske folks historie under borgerkrigene på 1800-og 1900-tallet og til Latin-Amerikas og den 3. verdens historie.

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.

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.

Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our writer.

With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity - good and evil.

Gabriel García Márquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best works. This reflective and atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel, a veteran of the 'War of a Thousand Days', is still, after thirty years, waiting for the letter authorising payment of his war pension.The old soldier and his wife mourn the brutal killing of their only son, and the story of their struggle against poverty and sickness culminates in the Colonel's defiant refusal to part with his cherished fighting cock, however serious the consequences.The moving narrative pays tribute to the resilience of human nature and man's will to survive in the face of heavy odds. The novel also throws light on the turbulent religious and political troubles in Latin America.Now revised to include an updated chronology and bibliography, Giovanni Pontiero's acclaimed critical edition provides English-speaking students with an introduction to, and notes on the text, and a selected vocabulary.

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDESitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, and the mysteries of love, from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.`No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez¿ Salman Rushdie`One of the greatest visionary writers ¿ and one of my favourites from the time I was young¿ Barack Obama`Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that¿ Guardian

Nyoppdaget roman fra den nobelprisvinnende forfatteren av Kjærlighet i koleraens tid og Hundre års ensomhet.Alene, med utsikt over den stille og blå lagunen, sitter Ana Magdalena Bach og studerer mennene i hotellbaren. Hun er lykkelig gift og har ingen grunn til å rømme fra det livet hun har skapt med mann og barn. Og likevel, i august hvert år, reiser hun til øya der moren er gravlagt, og for én natt tar hun en ny elsker.Med mørke netter og tropisk regnskyll som bakteppe utforsker Ana sitt eget begjær, sin egen frykt og sin egen livslyst.Vi ses i august er en bok full av overraskelser, en meditasjon over frihet, sensualitet, anger og kjærlighetens mysterier.

One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

This extraordinary collection of fiction, representing some of Gabriel García Márquez's earlier work from the 1950s, as well as stories written in the 1960s and '70s, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.

Written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude, this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness.

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intencion de estudiar cine, a mediados de los anos cincuenta. El cierre del periodico para el que trabajaba le sumio en la pobreza, mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicacion. Tras el barroquismo faulkneriano de La hojarasca , esta segunda novela supone un paso hacia la ascesis, hacia la economía expresiva, y el estilo del escritor se hace más puro y transparente. Se trata también de una historia de injusticia y violencia: un viejo coronel retirado va al puerto todos los viernes a esperar la llegada de la carta oficial que responda a la justa reclamacion de sus derechos por los servicios prestados a la patria. Pero la patria permanece muda....

Forfatteren forteller om sin oppvekst hos besteforeldrene i Colombia, studietiden med jusstudier og sitt liv som forfatter. Han tar oss også med på en reise til steder og personer som er beskrevet i den magiske verdenen fra sine tidligere verk.

Markien av Casaldueros tolvårige datter blir bitt av en gal hund, og rykter om forestående redsler begynner å svirre. Faren overfalles av dårlige samvittighet for at han har forsømt datteren, som har fått sin oppdragelse i slavekvarterene. Han tar henne i hus, men hun vantrives og slår seg vrang. På ordre fra biskopen sendes hun til Santa Clara-klosteret, hvor biskopens medarbeider skal ta seg av demonutdrivelsen.

Santiago Near skal dø, og alle vet det unntatt ham selv. En brud er returnert på bryllupsnatten fordi hun ikke var jomfru; familiens ære er krenket og kan bare gjenopprettes ved blodhevn. Hun presses til å oppgi et navn, og brødrene hennes begir seg til torget for å vente på sitt offer. Historiens beske paradoks er at en mann blir drept, tilsynelatende med hele samfunnets velsignelse, mens det i virkeligheten skjer uten at noen egentlig ville det, aller minst morderne selv.

Med den gåtefulle fotografen Saint-Amours selvmord føres leseren inn i historien, et epos om åtti års begivenheter, fra midten av 1800-tallet og frem til 1930-årene, i en columbiansk by ved den karibiske kyst.