Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
The Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera presents a collection of twelve stories that feature an aging streetwalker and her gravesite-mourning dog, a bereaved father's journey to Rome, a paranoid husband, and more. Reprint.
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”<br><br>Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prost ...
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<p>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.</p>
<i>I’m in Rent for Dreaming</i>, next to <i>The Blessed Mania of Telling Stories</i> and <i>How to Tell a Story</i>, gathers the experiences of the Cinematographic Workshop coordinated by the Nobel Prize of Literature. This volume presents the sessions of the workshop that gave birth to the id ...
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<i>The Blessed Mania of Telling Stories </i>gathers, next to <i>How to Tell a Story</i> and <i>I’m in Rent for Dreaming</i>, the experiences obtained in the Cinematographic Workshop coordinated by the Nobel Award of Literature.<br>In this volume, Gabriel García Márquez collects impre ...
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This novel recounts the ordeal of a sailor who is washed overboard and survives 10 days alone at sea. Originally published as a series of factual articles in a Bogota newspaper, this true story was reincarnated as a novella 15 years later, in 1970. Based on the experiences of a crew member on a Colo ...
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