One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9798200952090
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Gabriel García Márquez

Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Ascent to Glory

Ascent to Glory
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9780231545433
ISBN-13 : 0231545436
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Ascent to Glory by : Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic? Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyond the many legends that surround it. He unveils the literary ideas and networks that made possible the book’s creation and initial success. Santana-Acuña then follows this novel’s path in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Pure Colour

Pure Colour
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9780374603960
ISBN-13 : 0374603960
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Pure Colour by : Sheila Heti

Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 0521316928
ISBN-13 : 9780521316927
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Michael Wood

The author places the landmark novel into the context of modern Colombia's violent history, exploring the complex vision of Gabriel García Márquez.

Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 188
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195144550
ISBN-13 : 0195144554
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Gene H. Bell-Villada

This collection includes ten articles by different authors that offer in-depth readings of the novel. Among the topics examined are myth, magic, women, western imperialism, and the media. The book also includes a 1982 interview with the author.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9780593310854
ISBN-13 : 0593310853
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by : Gabriel García Márquez

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781438125626
ISBN-13 : 1438125623
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Presents a collection of critical essays about Marquez's, "One hundred years of solitude."

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780307822369
ISBN-13 : 0307822362
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by : Louis de Bernieres

This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance."--Washington Post Book World.

The Girl with Ghost Eyes

The Girl with Ghost Eyes
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781940456454
ISBN-13 : 1940456452
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Girl with Ghost Eyes by : M. H. Boroson

“The Girl with Ghost Eyes is a fun, fun read. Martial arts and Asian magic set in Old San Francisco make for a fresh take on urban fantasy, a wonderful story that kept me up late to finish.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened with yin eyes—the unique ability to see the spirit world. Her spiritual visions and the death of her husband bring shame to Li-lin and her father—and shame is not something this immigrant family can afford. When a sorcerer cripples her father, terrible plans are set in motion, and only Li-lin can stop them. To aid her are her martial arts and a peachwood sword, her burning paper talismans, and a wisecracking spirit in the form of a human eyeball tucked away in her pocket. Navigating the dangerous alleys and backrooms of a male-dominated Chinatown, Li-lin must confront evil spirits, gangsters, and soulstealers before the sorcerer’s ritual summons an ancient evil that could burn Chinatown to the ground. With a rich and inventive historical setting, nonstop martial arts action, authentic Chinese magic, and bizarre monsters from Asian folklore, The Girl with Ghost Eyes is also the poignant story of a young immigrant searching to find her place beside the long shadow of a demanding father and the stigma of widowhood. In a Chinatown caught between tradition and modernity, one woman may be the key to holding everything together. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 9781139828017
ISBN-13 : 1139828010
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez by : Philip Swanson

Gabriel García Márquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become closely associated with Magical Realism, a phenomenon that has been immensely influential in world literature. This Companion, first published in 2010, includes new and probing readings of all of García Márquez's works, by leading international specialists. His life in Colombia, the context of Latin American history and culture, key themes in his works and their critical reception are explored in detail. Written for students and readers of García Márquez, the Companion is accessible for non-Spanish speakers and features a chronology and a guide to further reading. This insightful and lively book will provide an invaluable framework for the further study and enjoyment of this major figure in world literature.