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  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco GonzálezOne of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Autumn of the Patriarch

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    One of Gabriel García Márquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leaf Storm

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    Leaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born.A man dies and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Evil Hour

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    In Evil Hour is the thrilling story about the smears, defamations, infidelities, and torrential rains that afflict a small Colombian town, and the sacrifice of a boy that brings torment and chaos to an end, from the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.One morning, slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Captains of the Sands

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    **A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaA Penguin Classics**They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “Bullet,” the band—including a crafty liar named “Legless,” the intellectual ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Bomarzo

    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    by Manuel Mujica Lainez ...
    **“[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.” —Roberto BolañoA lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town’s famously bizarre “Garden of the Monsters.”**Forty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Rosario Tijeras

    A Novel

    by Jorge Franco ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    "Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Collection of Short Stories

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by J. S. Bernstein, Gregory Rabassa ...
    An enchanting new collection of twenty-nine short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, a master storyteller who “forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life” (New York Review of Books)Spanning more than two decades, this collection combines humor, history, and mysticism to tell stories about the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, lost ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Discovery of America by the Turks

    by Jorge Amado ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    A Penguin ClassicPublished here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Quincas Borba

    by Joaquim Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Br's Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth-century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English-speaking readers. ... Read more

    $37.79 USD