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The Buendía family saga traces the birth, growth and decline of Macondo.
Original title: Cien años de soledad
HarperCollins
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Edition source ↗Muza · 1997
Translated by Grażyna Grudzińska, Kalina Wojciechowska
Edition source ↗
Florentino Ariza preserves his love for Fermina Daza for decades after she marries another man.
Original title: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Aguilar returns home to find his wife in a psychological crisis rooted in family history.
Original title: Delirio
Antonio Yammara investigates a murdered acquaintance’s past and discovers the personal consequences of Colombia’s drug wars.
Original title: El ruido de las cosas al caer
An elderly teacher watches armed groups destroy his town’s everyday life.
Original title: Los ejércitos
A couple abandons the city for coastal life, but their utopian project collides with material reality.
Original title: Primero estaba el mar
Seven narratives follow Maqroll through ports, rivers and ventures destined for failure.
Original title: Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero
A son reconstructs the life of his father, a doctor and activist murdered by Colombian paramilitaries.
Original title: El olvido que seremos
Damaris adopts a puppy whose care exposes her unfulfilled longing for motherhood.
Original title: La perra
A writer returning to Medellín becomes involved with a young assassin in a city marked by drug-related terror.
Original title: La virgen de los sicarios
Revisiting an old murder exposes the collective inaction of a town whose residents knew what the killers planned.
A colonel waits for his promised pension while he and his ailing wife struggle with poverty and pin their hopes on a fighting cock.
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