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	Botero Wall Calendar 2006 Click picture to look inside The Taschen Wall Calendar Botero 2006 features 12 big and beautiful reproductions and an elegant layout for the days of the month. Laminated cover, 300 x 300 mm, 24 pages Publisher: Taschen ISBN: 3822843474 Published: 2005 Price: £6.99


	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


	Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Living to Tell the Tale He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez begins to tell the story of his life. Living to Tell the Tale spans Marquez's life from his birth in 1927, through the beginning of his career as a writer, to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It is a tale of people, places and events as they occur to him: family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia, parts of his history until now undisclosed and incidents that would later appear, transmuted and transposed in his fiction. A vivid, powerful, beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Marquez as a writer and as a man. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141019425 Published: 2005 Paperback: 496 pages Price: £7.99


	Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera This love story, translated from Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, her chance for happiness comes. 'An anatomy of love in all its forms...The novel's other great subject, like Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, is time - how memory transfigures and redeems all that has gone before...Garcia Marquez has revealed how the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary...The result is a rich, commodious novel, a novel whose narrative power is matched only by it generosity of vision' - The New York Times 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 ISBN: 014012389X Published: 1989 Paperback: 368 pages Price: £7.99

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