Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
The autumn of the patriarch / translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ8180.17.A73 O813
This is a 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.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
Chronicle of a death foretold / translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ8180.17.A73 C6813 1983
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But, when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of their wedding he is murdered by her brothers. We are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
Clandestine in Chile : the adventures of Miguel Littín / translated by Asa Zatz
F3100 .G37513 1987
Miguel Littín is a well-known film director permanently exiled from Pinochet's Chile. He returns to his native country disguised as a Uruguayan public-relations agent. His purpose is to film Chile today, to record the "abominable silences" of his beloved country under siege.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
The general in his labyrinth / translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
PQ8180.17.A73 G413 1990
General Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won-and lost-in a life.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
In evil hour / translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ8180.17.A73 M313
Written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude, this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
Innocent Eréndira, and other stories / translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ8180.17.A73 I5
A collection of stories.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
Love in the time of cholera / translated by Edith Grossman
PQ8180.17.A73 A813 1988
While delivering a message to her father, Florentino Ariza spots the barely pubescent Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. What follows is the story of a passion that extends over 50 years, as Fermina is courted solely by letter, decisively rejects her suitor when he first speaks, and then joins the urbane Dr. Juvenal Urbino, much above her station, in a marriage initially loveless but ultimately remarkable in its strength.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
Of love and other demons / translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
PQ8180.17 .A73 D4513 1995
The story of a doomed love affair between an unruly copper-haired girl and the bookish priest sent to oversee her exorcism.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
One hundred years of solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ8180.17.A73 C513 C1-5
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragic comedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Gabríel Márquez, Garcia
The story of a shipwrecked sailor: who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water.
Translated by Randolph Hogan
G530.V442 G3713 1986
On February 26, 1955, Luis Alejandro Velasco was washed off the deck of the Colombian destroyer Caldas along with seven of his crewmates. His companions drowned, but Velasco was left to drift "in the midst of the sea's dark murmur" for ten days and nights before he could reach shore. Afterwards, he was surprised to find himself a hero.
Gallegos, Rómulo
Doña Bárbara
PQ8549 .G24 D5 2002
Doña Bárbara is a mysterious and sinister personality. The story takes place in the Venezuelan plains, a male domain, and at a time when a woman's place was considered to be at home.
Garro, Elena
First love & Look for my Obituary
PQ7297 .G3585 A28 1997
Two novellas. First Love examines the consequences of two tourists befriending German prisoners of war in France, and explores the tension between primal human kindness and social conventions. Look for My Obituary explores a surrealistic, haunting love affair set in a world of arranged marriages.
Lispector, Clarice; Washburn, Yulan M
The Apple in the Dark / translated by Gregory Rabassa
PQ9697.L585 M313 1986
Fleeing from the wife he believes he has murdered, Martim stumbles upon a remote farm run by Vitoria, an iron-willed spinster, and her neurotic cousin Ermelinda.
Lispector, Clarice
Family Ties / translated by Giovanni Pontiero
PQ9697 .L585 F34
The stories in Family Ties, originally published in 1960, are among her most important contributions to Brazilian fiction. They show her preoccupation with human suffering and failure.
Lispector, Clarice
The Hour of the Star / translated by Giovanni Pontiero
PQ9697.L585 H6713 1992
Living in the slums of Rio and eeking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Even so, Macabea is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be.
Lispector, Clarice
The Stream of Life
PQ9697.L585 A7813 1989
This rarefied novel adopts the form of the interior monologue characteristic of Lispector's (1925-1977) oeuvre. A woman sits by the open window of her Brazilian beachfront studio, writing a long letter to someone no more specific than "you." She parries with language (which is "only words which live off sound") and is wholly consumed with problems of epistemology: "I want to die with life." A painter, she struggles as well to recreate the world around her.
Martínez Estrada, Ezequiel
Holy Saturday and other stories / translated by Leland H. Chambers
PQ7797.M277 A24 1988
A collection of short stories. "Martinez Estrada's narrative prose appears with a tone so appropriate to his purposes that no detail, no name, no description is accidental. Every digression is only apparent, every detour necessary, and yet his prose never on that account becomes inflexible for the reader.
Mastretta, Angeles
Tear this heart out
PQ7298.23 .A795 A7713 1997
Set in the tumultuous years following the Mexican revolution, this extraordinary tale of love is seen through the eyes of the irresistible Catalina Guzman, a guileless adolescent who leaves her poor parents to marry a retired general twice her age.
Matto de Turner, Clorinda
Torn from the nest
PQ8497.M3 A913 1998
In this tragic tale, the relationship between the landed gentry and the indigenous peoples of the Andean mountain communities is explored. While unfolding as a love story rife with secrets and dashed hopes, Torn from the Nest in fact reveals a deep and destructive class disparity, and criticizes the Catholic clergy for blatant corruption. A collection of poems and prose.
Mistral, Gabriela
Selected Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry series)
PQ8097 .G6 A22 1962
This is the first English translation of selected poems of the late Chilean poet who became, in 1945, the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Gabriela Mistral writes in rhymed forms, assonance, free verse, and sometimes in a combination of all three styles.
Mistral, Gabriela
A Gabriela Mistral Reader
PQ8097 .G6 A23 1992
"This new anthology goes far in helping readers to see Mistral as a more varied, intriguing, and complex poet, whose themes extend beyond motherhood and love, and whose impassioned songs range from joyous to despairing, nostalgic to rebellious, delirious to lucid."