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(0)Gabriel García Márquez
Author
Series
Letras hispánicas volume 215
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of the gradual modernization of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
Author
Language
Español
Description
An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the girl from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino....
Author
Series
Contemporánea) volume 354
Lexile measure
730L
Language
Español
Description
"No One Writes to the Colonel" is a masterpiece study of a lonely old man who was once powerful--among the master's greatest works of insight into the human condition.
17) Pedro Páramo
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro P̀ramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro P̀ramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of P̀ramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint...
20) Until August
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
