New Releases by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

從剛出道的第一次到生前最後一次，絕無僅有的馬奎斯訪談集。 諾貝爾獎文學獎得主，被《紐約時報》譽為「文學魔法的魔術師」的馬奎斯，他以《百年孤寂》為讀者所熟知，影響力跨越數個世代至今，無疑是全世界最受歡迎的小說家。 本書除了馬奎斯生前的最後一次訪談，還收錄了小說家的初次訪談。此外還收錄了馬奎斯與好友孟多薩（Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza）的對談，其中包含了作家對女人、真愛與迷信的見解。 對於馬奎斯的終生粉絲和初次接觸大師作品的讀者來說，這是一本必不可少的書。 「我很期待某位《觀察家報》的報童會看我的小說，這樣我就可以詢問他的心得， 我也很想知道司機、擦鞋匠還有彩券小販是怎麼想的⋯⋯我相信一般百姓都會喜歡這部小說⋯⋯ 這部小說會受大家歡迎，如此一來也就證明當代小說可以與社會大眾心靈相通。」 ——馬奎斯談第一本小說《枯枝敗葉》

Memikirkan Kata adalah buku panduan menulis untuk semua—berisi panduan teknis mau pun spiritual proses kreatif yang bisa diambil dari pengalaman para penulis dunia dan kisah kreatif mereka yang esai, interview mau pun momoar dan artikelnya terdapat dalam bab-bab dalam buku ini. Meski bertajuk “Panduan” buku ini lebih merupakan etalase hasrat penulisan dan penebalan tekad bahwa bahkan bagi para penulis dunia peraih Nobel Sastra sekali pun—menulis adalah hal sulit dan rumit—itu karena menulis sejatinya adalah proses berpikir, memahami dan mengembangkan empati. Proses belajarnya bisa berlangsung seumur hidup. Bakat, disiplin, kebiasaan, dan kemampuan teknikal merupakan panduan komplit yang seluruhnya dibutuhkan. Review lengkap buku ini bisa di baca di laman The Jakarta Post dengan judul: ''Memikirkan Kata'' deciphers one of the greatest writing conundrums: Producing words. Buku “Memikirikan Kata” dilengkapi dengan ratusan foto epik dan monumental para penulis indonesia mau pun dunia. Dengan halaman Full Colour, buku setebal 600 lebih halaman ini, bisa dikatakan sebagai buku penulisan/ proses kreatif paling lengkap yang bisa dan cocok dibaca oleh pembaca indonesia, siapa saja untuk tujuan kreatif apa saja yang menggunakan bahasa dan kata sebagai alat produktifnya. Tak terkecuali untuk para sastrawan-penyair, para jurnalis, editor, dosen, penulis lepas, content creator, mau pun pribadi-pribadi yang tengah memasuki dunia kepenulisan atau berkebutuhan mengembangkan diri dalam bidang sastra dan penulisan dalam artinya yang luas. Dalam edisi ini berisi Bab I: The Essay: Pengantar Tentang Membaca, Menulis dan Berpikir. Dan Bab II: Voice Of Editor: Menilik Dapur Pikiran Para Editor Tentang Dunia Kepengarangan. Untuk membaca utuh buku buku “Memikirkan Kata” yang terdiri dari 10 Bab, silakan order edisi cetak buku ini melalui Galeri Buku Jakarta.

Seorang pria pulang ke kota asalnya untuk mengulik pembunuhan yang terjadi lama berselang. Dua puluh tujuh tahun silam, Bayardo San Roman mengembalikan istrinya yang cantik, Angela Vicario, kepada mertuanya, hanya beberapa jam setelah menikah, dengan alasan si istri tidak perawan. Pedro dan Pablo Vicario, kakak kembar Angela, lantas pergi mencari Santiago Nasar, kekasih Angela yang dituding sebagai biang keladi permasalahan ini. Sebelum membunuh Santiago, si kembar Vicario mengumumkan niat mereka itu kepada seisi kota. Semua orang tahu persis akan ada pembunuhan, tapi kenapa tidak seorang pun bertindak dan berusaha mencegahnya? Makin lama urusannya makin pelik dan berujung pada akhir yang sungguh tak bisa dijelaskan.

Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco González One 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 the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1982. This is a collection of selected essays to help readers understand Marquez. It is also an easy-to-understand and beautiful non-fiction writing template. A lively, interesting, and accessible non-fiction writing master class, revealing the secrets of the growth of the great storyteller Marquez, and introducing us to daily life that is more exciting than fiction.

Penguin presents I''m Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel García Márquez collected and published in English for the first time. Gabriel García Márquez has charmed generations of readers with his distinctive and richly expressive style. His talent for language is seen here as never before, in the public speeches he gave throughout his extraordinary life. These speeches chart Márquez''s growth as a writer and orator, from an early talk given as a teenager graduating high school to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize. They offer new insight into the workings of the author''s mind, drawing a portrait of Marquez as a writer and as a man. This is a rare gem from a writer who touched readers across the globe. I Am Not Here to Give a Speech is a must-buy for anyone who ever fell in love with Macondo or cherished a battered copy of Love in the Time of Cholera. Praise for Gabriel García Márquez: ''The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years'' Salman Rushdie on One Hundred Years of Solitude ''Should be required reading for the entire human race'' New York Times on One Hundred Years of Solitude ''A masterpiece'' Evening Standard on Chronicle of a Death Foretold ''As a reading experience it is completely magical'' Observer on Living to Tell the Tale ''It asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling'' Observer on The Autumn of the Patriarch ''Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do'' Salman Rusdhie on Collected Stories

One of the twentieth century’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, available in a special limited slip-cased edition. In 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude launched Gabriel García Márquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure in the Latin Boom, García Márquez was the most celebrated practitioner of the literary style that has become known as magic realism, and in 1982, received the highest literary achievement: the Nobel Prize for Literature. Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called One Hundred Years of Solitude, “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes.” In the New York Times legendary critic John Leonard proclaimed, “with a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov.” And writer William Kennedy has hailed García Márquez’s masterpiece as, “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.” Over four decades after its publication, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains one of the most beloved and venerated books in world literature. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, it tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendía family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendías, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race. This special edition is a re-designed jacketed hardcover featuring colored endpapers in a beautiful, elegant slipcase.

Presents a collection of critical essays about Marquez''s, "One hundred years of solitude."

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. ''My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'' Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In the first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction. ''A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn''t find. A thrilling miracle of a book'' The Times ''A marvellous journey. Never less than a miracle'' Sunday Times ''Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do'' Salman Rushdie

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on'' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . . ''A masterpiece'' Evening Standard ''A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel'' The Times ''Brilliant writer, brilliant book'' Guardian

A CLASSIC STORY OF ENDURING LOVE FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ''One of the greatest love stories I have ever read'' Oprah, featured in Oprah''s Book Club _______________________________ ''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 Ariza''s impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. When Fermina''s husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? _______________________________ ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton ''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph ''An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women'' The Times

Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez,, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. ''Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm'' Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. The Colonel and his family must bury the doctor, despite the inclination of their fellow inhabitants that his corpse be forgotten and left to rot. ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton ''Márquez is a retailer of wonders'' Sunday Times ''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph

The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón Bolívar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena, and he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life'' At the age of forty-six General Simón Bolívar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the memories of what he has done and what he failed to do, Bolívar hopes to see a way out of the labyrinth in which he has lived all his life. . .. ''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph ''An imaginative writer of genius'' Guardian ''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, 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 the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself ''a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent''. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his ''Delgadina'' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . ''Márquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller'' Daily Mail ''Márquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic'' Tatler ''Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do'' Salman Rushie

Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 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 its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December'' When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero''s doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva María, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva María appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it''s not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town''s woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcizing the evil spirit recognises the girl''s sanity, but can he convince the town that it''s not her that needs healing? ''Superb and intensely readable'' Time Out ''A compassionate, witty and unforgettable masterpiece'' Daily Telegraph ''At once nostalgic and satiric, a resplendent fable'' Sunday Times

Cuenta la historia de un marineo que estuvo durante diez (10) días a la deriva en una balsa pasando hambre y cuando es rescatado lo declaran héroe nacional.

Bloei en verval van een Zuid-Amerikaanse familie gedurende enkele generaties en de politieke, economische en morele ontwikkeling in het door hen gestichte stadje.

This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez''s earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama''s Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez''s prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.