Gabriel García Márquez

8 summariesLiterary Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

Books by Gabriel García Márquez

8 books available

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
4.1 (753k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Through the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, a mythical town deals with the repeating patterns of time, love, and solitude, as the extraordinary mixes with the ordinary.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
3.9 (412k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
A lifelong romantic, devoted for half a century across countless lovers, finds his chance to rekindle love in his beloved's final years, proving true love always finds its way back.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
4.0 (127k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In a small Colombian town, the collective memory of an honor killing unravels, revealing not who committed the murder, but why an entire community allowed it to happen despite knowing the victim's fate.
Of Love and Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez
4.0 (56k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
In an 18th-century South American port, a young noble girl, thought to be possessed after a rabid dog bite, starts a forbidden and tragic love affair with the priest sent to exorcise her.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsFiction
Gabriel García Márquez explores the mind of an aging Caribbean dictator in a dreamlike story, showing the grotesque and human aspects of absolute power and its slow decline.
The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez
3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
Simón Bolívar, prematurely aged and exiled, once the Liberator, navigates his fading power and vivid memories on a final river journey, clinging to life and his shattered dream of a united continent.
Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez
4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsBiography
Gabriel García Márquez writes about his early life, showing the real-world magic, people, and places that shaped his writing.
In Evil Hour
Gabriel García Márquez
3.4 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In a rain-soaked Colombian river town, anonymous verses expose hidden secrets and moral decay, pushing its residents to chaos.