Penguin No One Writes to the Colonel Гарсиа Маркес Габриэль

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time • Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again • When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' • Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina • When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez,, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm • 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm' • Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. The Colonel and his family must bury the doctor, despite the inclination of their fellow inhabitants that his corpse be forgotten and left to rot

Зачем красивая женщина превратилась в кошку? Почему негритенок Набо заставил ангелов ждать? Что убивает человека - смертельная болезнь или готовность принять смерть? Что происходит в старинном городке Макондо с приходом сезона дождей? И что все-таки случилось с тремя пьяницами в дешевом баре, где хозяйничали выпи? Рассказы Габриэля Гарсиа Маркеса, в которых он играет со стилями и пробует себя в разных литературных направлениях. Он ощупью ищет то, что станет впоследствии его творческим кредо. А читатель прослеживает его путь - от просто хорошего писателя до истинного мастера слова!Содержание:Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес. Третье смирение (рассказ)Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес. Ева внутри своей кошки (рассказ)Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес. Тувалкаин кует звезду (рассказ)Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес

Все рассказы Габриэля Гарсиа Маркеса в одной книге! Полное собрание малой прозы выдающегося мастера! Маркес работал в самых разных литературных направлениях, однако именно рассказы в стиле магического реализма стали своеобразной визитной карточкой писателя. От ранних литературных опытов в сборнике «Глаза голубой собаки» - таких, как «Третье смирение», «Диалог с зеркалом» и «Кто ворошит эти розы», - до шедевров магического реализма в сборниках «Похороны Великой Мамы», «Невероятная и грустная история о простодушной Эрендире и ее жестокосердной бабушке» и поэтичных историй в «Двенадцати рассказах-странниках». Среди них – «Море исчезающих времен», «Последнее плавание корабля-призрака», «Постоянство смерти и любовь» - истинные жемчужины творческого наследия великого прозаика

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues • There's Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them • Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system • James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin' (Independent) and 'the most profound scientific thinker of our time' (Literary Review) continues, in his 95th year, to be the great scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what Lovelock calls 'accelerated evolution', a process which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution

In Evil Hour is the thrilling story of a Colombian society menaced by rumour and paranoia by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera • As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a murder, everyone knows that the town is threatened by a malevolent presence - but is there anything that the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do about it?

Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera • 'The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha' • The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer

Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez is known for • Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel Garcia Marquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a every old angel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple's back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky and an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Marquez's stories are a delight

О чем бы ни писал Маркес, он всегда писал об одном и, в сущности, главном – о любви и о смерти. И повести, составившие этот сборник – не исключение. В «Хронике объявленной смерти» герой погибает наутро после первой брачной ночи. «О любви и прочих бесах» – жаркий рассказ о страсти священника к юной аристократке – страсти, которую не способны изгнать ни молитва, ни пост, ни пламя костра. И наконец в третьей повести любовь приходит как нежданный и незаслуженный дар в конце бессмысленно прожитой жизни. Любовь и смерть, как талантливые и опытные партнеры, ведут со страницы на страницу повестей Маркеса свой истинно латиноамериканский танец – отчаянный, опасный и страстный

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party • But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace • No bodies. No evidence. No clues • Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker • How did an entire village vanish overnight? • And is he looking for nine missing people, or nine dead bodies?