Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the man, Santiago Nasar. As the murder is planned, no one in the town tries to stop the crime, which results in an entire society put on trial for the murder.

When she is bitten by a rabid dog in colonial South America, twelve-year-old Sierva María is sent to a convent to endure torturous therapies and meets bookish Father Cayetano Delaura, with whom she shares a doomed affair.

"Con La hojarasca nació Macondo, población cercana a la costa atlántico colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal. En él transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extráo, un antiguo médico odiado por el pueblo. Un viejo coronel retirado, para cumplir una promesa, se ha empeádo en enterrarle frente a la oposición de todo el poblado y sus autoridades. Como en una tragedia...

The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.

Un hombre joven pierde a sus padres en medio de crueles padecimientos, y es abandonado por su esposa, y también por toda fe y cualquier esperanza. Desilusionado de la humanidad y la sociedad, sólo se interesa por encontrar el rastro de una tribu misteriosa, los últimos indígenas de América que aún no han entrado en contacto con la civilización.

Collection of twelve stories that poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Doce Cuentos Peregrinos is a triumph of narrative sorcery by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

"Eleven-year-old Eddie Aguado is convinced that winning the 14th Annual Arne Hopkins Dock Fishing Tournament (once he actually learns how to fish) will bring him closer to his dad, who died when Eddie was only five"--

When her best friend Kiara joins the basketball team and begins to pull away, twelve-year-old Jasmine feels alone until she joins the drama club and makes new friends, but will she ever reconnect with Kiara?

Fernando returns home after a prolonged absence to attend to his most beloved brother, Dario, an AIDS patient whose health is slowly deteriorating owing to his alcohol and marijuana use. Vallejo indulges in digressions into past memories that they both share, which include endless adolescent partying and homosexual love affairs. La Muerte (Death), the character around whom the narrative ultimately revolves, appears throughout, touching different members...