Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez
By: Ángel Esteban
3.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of the controversial friendship between Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez…
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1. Of Love and Other Demons
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more
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"<>, dijo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Do not allow me to forget you"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons
2. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.79
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
3. The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story
By: Sergei Dovlatov , Anne Frydman
4.07
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in th… read more
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4. The Death of Artemio Cruz
By: Carlos Fuentes , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes'… read more
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"Nunca escucharás las palabras de los otros. Tendrás que vivirlas."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"Vivir es traicionar a tu Dios; cada acto de la vida, cada acto que nos afirma como seres vivos, exige que se violen los mandamientos de tu Dios"-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"¿A poco no somos los meros chingones? ¿Sabes? Escoge siempre a tus amigos entre los grandes chingones, porque con ellos no hay quien te chingue a ti."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
5. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
6. Sostiene Pereira
By: Antonio Tabucchi
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more
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7. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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9. Los funerales de la Mamá Grande
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
En Los funerales de la Mama Grande (1962) se reunen siete cuentos y la novela corta que da titulo a… read more
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10. Living to Tell the Tale
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first vol… read more
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11. A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
By: Paul Glynn
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thou… read more
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12. Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the … read more
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13. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more
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14. La hojarasca
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
El primer libro de Gabriel García Márquez —de 1955— contiene el germen estilístico y de las ideas q… read more
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"As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice."-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's hand move…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sosteni…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los insectos cesa en ese instante preciso; el curso de la naturaleza se detiene; la creación tambalea al b…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
15. Paradise
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more
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16. The House of the Spirits
By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin
4.28
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more
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"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
17. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
18. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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19. Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez
By: Ángel Esteban
3.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of the controversial friendship between Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Las cartas del Boom
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.51
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
«La obra de García Márquez es incomprensible sin la de Cortázar, y la de Cortázar es incomprensible… read more
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