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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction
'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 Arizo's impassioned advances and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half centu ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This love story, translated from the Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, his chance for happiness comes.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A "New York Times" Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhaus ...Show more
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the "One Hundred Years of Solitude". "The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." On ...Show more
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in ten years and it fully lives up to the expectations of his critics, readers, and fans of all ages and nationalities. MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES introduces us to a totally new genre of Garcia Marquez's writing. It ...Show more
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, brutal killer, terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. Ten relatives of Colombian politicians were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm t ...Show more
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left. Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medici ...Show more
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26.00 NZD
27.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
Nobel Prize winner and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in "Of Love and Other Demons" - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on i ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the magical story of the Buend?a family, who love, lie, fight and rule for a century in Macondo, their settlement in the South American jungle. Part exotic paradise, part nightmare, Macondo is a fantastic world of miracles and mirages where nothing is as it seems. Its ...Show more