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	Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export. Equally tragic, joyful and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude inhabits a strange dream-like space where very little makes real sense, but everything is mysteriously and vividly alive nonetheless. Blending fantasy and reality seamlessly, the characters struggle hopelessly against a merciless backdrop of madness, corruption and death - all measured out equally with farce and fatality - as profound a statement on the human condition as possible. In every sense, this is literature on the grandest of scales. An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Gabriel García Márquez, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. Publisher: Penguin Classics ISBN: 014118499X Published: 2000 Paperback: 432 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £8.99


	Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems The poetry of Pablo Neruda is a direct and heartfelt communication of the poet's personal experience, political, romantic and mystical. His second collection of poetry, Veinte Poemas de Amor was concerned in particular with his discovery of woman and the universe and it brought him recognition in his native Chile when he was barely twenty. It was the Spanish Civil War, however, and the death of the poet and playwright Lorca that fuelled his need to speak for the ordinary people. This collection of his poetry contains work written between the years 1924 and 1967. Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in Parral, Chile. In 1920 he went to Santiago to study and published his first book of poems, La canción de la fiesta (1921); and his second collection, Crepusculario (1923), brought him instant recognition. In 1924 he published the enormously popular Veinte poemas de amor y una canción deseperada. From 1927 to 1945 he served as Chilean consul in Rangoon, Java and Barcelona, and was writing continuously. Greatly influenced by events in the Spanish Civil War, Neruda joined the Communist Party after the Second World War, and his changed attitudes registered themselves in his poetry. Always a prolific poet, Neruda continued to write poetry throughout the fifties and sixties, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry. From 1970 to 1973 he served under Allende as Chilean ambassador to Paris. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140186182 Published: 1992 Paperback: 240 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £9.99


	Pablo Neruda - Twenty Love Poems Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen, and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice. His third book, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada - Twenty love poems and a song of despair - was published in 1924 and attracted international acclaim. It remains one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years, with over a million copies sold worldwide. Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971. Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 0224074415 Published: 2004 Paperback: 72 pages, 214 x 134 mm Price: £6.99


	Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141183845 Published: 2000 Paperback: 192 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £7.99


	Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's magnificent family saga is populated by a memorable, often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature, and of history, converge in an unforgettable, wholly absorbing and brilliantly realised novel that is as richly entertaining as it is a masterpiece of modern literature. 'This is a novel like the novels no one seems to write anymore: thick with plot and bristling with characters who play out their lives over three generations of conflict and reconciliation. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power' - El Pais, Madrid 'Intensely moving. Both entertaining and deeply serious' Evening Standard, London Publisher: Black Swan ISBN: 0552995886 Published: 1994 Paperback: 496 pages, 198 x 127 mm Price: £7.99


	Mario Vargas Llosa - The Way to Paradise One of the Latin America's most important authors, Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936 and educated at university in Lima, where he studied Humanities and Law. Later, a scholarship took him to Madrid and, having gained his PhD, he moved to Paris for the next eighteen years. He returned to Lima in 1974. 'In Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel there are two stories - that of Paul Gauguin, the Post-Impressionist painter, and that of Paul Gauguin's grandmother, Flora Tristan...what makes the novel so illuminating is the continuity between their parallel lives...the novel is highly accomplished and teems with characters, ideas and incident - Gauguin and Flora may have thought they were masters of their own destiny, but this novel powerfully suggests that even that may have been an illusion - like paradise itself' - Literary Review 'Vargas Llosa's storytelling gifts are pretty much unrivalled, and they don't desert him this time either. His recreation of the tactile, sensuous, brilliant, whiffy details of the everyday is superb...a fabulously abundant book' - Financial Times, London 'The Way to Paradise weaves an extraordinarily rich double fantasia around Gauguin's life, strenuously explores qualities in the works, and sets moral issues in a far wilder, more real historical world...riveting stuff, beautifully written, wild, exact, and visually stunning' - The Independent, UK Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 057122038X Published: 2004 Paperback: 432 pages Price: £7.99

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