This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an...

This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE comes an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics edition of the masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives...

As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a murder, everyone knows that the...

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...

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 Buendia...

The author transmutes historical truth into magical narrative as he recounts the life of Simon Bolivar, who in the years 1811-24 led the revolutionary armies of South America against the Spaniards and ousted them from their former...