Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, started his literary career with the publication of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor...'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.' In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was...

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow.' While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples...

"Cent jaroj da soleco" (1967) estas la efverko de la nobelpremiita kolombia a toro Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) kaj unu el la plej famaj verkoj de la hispanlingva kaj la monda literaturo. -- La romano en la stilo de "magia realismo" rakontas la historion de la familio Buendia dum sep generacioj en la fikcia vila o Macondo, kien Jose Arcadio Buendia kaj lia edzino venis por ekhavigi al si pli bonan vivon. Balda post ilia alveno, Macondon trafas eksterordinaraj homoj kaj nekutimaj eventoj, kiuj kontribuas al la esperoj kaj fiaskoj de la membroj de la granda familio kaj de Macondo. -- La...

Dílo jednoho z nejdůležitějších představitelů magického realismu Gabriela Garcíi Marqueze Podzim Patriarchy, doprovázené ilustracemi známého českého ilustrátora Borise Jirků.