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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(3844 reviews )

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A celebration of the endless variety of life in the mythical village of Macondo chronicles the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of the small South American town.

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprahs Book Club) (Paperback)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(2853 reviews )

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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...more

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(528 reviews )

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A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers annou...more

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Memories Of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(526 reviews )

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A Colombian journalist looks back on a long life and on the women he has known and loved--or at least had sex with. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, he begins what he knows is his last sexual relationship, this time an unconsummated one with a virginal 14-year-old, whom he prefers to see asleep. He describes this strange liaison in his long-runn...more

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Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(161 reviews )

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On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her...more

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