Award Winning Books by
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez 123 reviews (2005) (128p) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she ca... more >>

LIVING TO TELL THE TALE by Gabriel García Márquez 53 reviews (2003) (496p) (NYTimes Non) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to th... more >>

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel García Márquez 514 reviews (1988) (368p) (NYTimes) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, ni... more >>

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD by Gabriel García Márquez 129 reviews (1983) (128p) (NYTimes) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for ... more >>

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 248 reviews (-) (464p) (Novel100) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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Gabriel García Márquez Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 0   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 0   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 0   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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