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Big Mama's Funeral (Los funerales de la Mama Grande)	Because it is an excellent history with several stories that are of the best thing. /Monica, 13, Colombia

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Cronica de una muerte anunciada)	I thought it was a refreshing story, complete with forward-thinking writing and superior insight. /Priscilla, 15, United States The novel is very rich in imagination. The story came alive for me. The fact that the story does not move chronologically also draws me in. I felt as if I was a detective. The numerous characters involved, and the conflict were well executed. I read this novel two years ago, and it still is one of my favorites. /Patchara Piampongsant, 18, Belgium This book is written prose that weaves a beautifully haunting tale over several points of view. In my opinion, it is the perfect book. /Kewannah, United States I personally believe that it is an extraordinary piece of work with such a journalistic way of telling the story that you will be amazed. Also the surreal details that the author uses to develop the story and the magical realism used to describe some of the setting in which the narrative takes place. It is really worth your time. /Christian Chandi, 17, United States

Leaf Storm and Other Stories (La hojarasca)	This was the first book by Marquez that I ever read, and I loved it. The title story is my absolute favorite - the dreamlike register, the surreal passing of time and the voice of the narrator all serve to enchant the reader. Whenever I need reminding of why I like short fiction, I reach for this book. /Kimberly Golden Malmgren, 35, Sweden

Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos de cólera)	Everything ... the way it is written ... the plot ... love always love ... maybe is the sense of life ... to love and being loved ... what else can you ask? /Maria Mac Lean, 41, Argentina Patience, loving patience ... I thing this is the best way I can describe this novel about how love may mean a lifetime of dedication. A fantastic flashback (like only García Marquéz can do), a brilliant fluctuation of time and a solitary Carribean island where the passion of one man wins in the middle of the vulgar war and disease. /Alessandro Panini, 36, Italy Because it is a very hard but at the same time very good story, it is long but when I had finished it I wanted to read it again. /Deniz Tapkan, 23, Turkey It's a perfect love story, non-conventional. /Maria Rosa, 19, Peru The language in this book is like a sweet French or British novel at the turn of the century. A love story to cross all time, borders, differences and spaces. Love is all you need to read this book. /Ruben Santos Claveria, 34, United States Because it is the most endearingly human book I have ever read. The prose has the wonderful feather-light quality of One Hundred Years and is threaded together by motifs of imagery that both describe and symbolise the love in the book, and this is why the reader themselves experiences the wonderful fleeting love of the whole novel. Márquez knows - and loves - life, and Love in the Time of Cholera is quietly devastating in its humanity. /Andrew Mason, 17, United Kingdom Márquez is one of the most talented writers alive. His prose is beautiful, his characters are deep and passionate, and his life lessons are timeless. /Jeremy, 14, United States This novel is the representation on how love endures through difficult times. Love does not know the meaning of time and age. /Maricarmen Colon, 38, United States Its a moving saga of romantic love which, most surprisingly, breaks the formulaic notion of 'eternal romantic love' itself! This critique of the 'given' is what I liked in this book. /Sourav Kargupta, 27, Germany

No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)	As a fellow Colombian I loved his books ... He really shows what he's thinking so others can enjoy! I am really proud to be from Colombia, but you don't have to be from Colombia to love his books. I love writing and my goal is to win the Nobel Prize, and for others to enjoy my art. /Juan Pablo, 11, Colombia It's a very descriptive novel on a lost hope that a man has in his government, but still he trusts in them as if they will make everything good again, when really the government is doing very little or nothing at all to help the poor people's needs. /Chim, 18, Mexico

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Anos de Soledad)	I have read it a couple of times and each time I finish it I have been under the influence of this book for at least a week. I really don't know what is so magical about this book but it makes me feel as if I am living this story myself ... /Lal Candemir, 32, Turkey This book is a wonderful and exceptional example of exactly how thin the border between real and unrealistic is. I have enjoyed reading this book because it has helped me learn a little more about the complexity and ingenuity of this life we live. Thank God Márquez wrote this book. And I hope that there will be a lot of other people out there in this world who will realize how solitude is wrapping its tenderly caring arms around us, but will soon engulf us and change our lives forever. For us to be forever alone ... /Veronika Nagy, 18, Hungary It is just the most wonderfull story I've ever read, and as a Spanish speaker, I find it extremely rich in terms of vocabulary and metaphors. /José Luis, 18, Argentina The master author has very successfully brought and highlighted across genres and combined various aspects portraying events with his specialised style of magical realism and pure fiction! He remains as one of my most favourite authors and his books are amongst my collectors items at home: '100 Years of Solitude', 'Love in the Time of Cholera', 'The General and his Labyrinth', 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor' and 'The Strange Pilgrims' ... It is pure fiction at it's best! /Ananthanarayanan V, 26, India It's simply wonderful ... /Paolo, 25, Italy This book is so poignant, so powerful, so unforgettable and extraordinary, that, for a long time, everything I read after it seemed bland. How does one go about describing Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece? I, personally, can find no words to describe it. To even try to summarize its contents, or describe the beauty of its words would be folly. I can only say that it is a book worth reading and that it should, in my humble opinion, be required reading for the entire human race. All of the characters are familiar to me now, all of them have their own story, their own voice. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing style is brilliant and each chapter is postively brimming with his lyrical magic. It's amusing, heartbreaking, hateful and compassionate at the same time. And even after praising the book like this, I still have the feeling that I haven't praised it enough. Read it, and you'll see for yourselves. /Emma, 13, Spain Because of the magic in the book. Because the way it made me look at the world after I read it. /Elisa Ontiveros, 29, Mexico It is sad and sexy, depressing and horny, it is a paradox of life in literature. /Lucie Stotter, 31, Czech Republic It's very interesting, very different from everything I have read before. /Dijana, 23, Bosnia & Herzegovina The narrative and the costumbrism of this book reveals how the human mind can give all the details in beautifull and correct words. /Alejandro Tafur, 27, Colombia It mixes dream, reality, witchcraft, magic, folklore. /Daniela Sarfatti, 63, Italy I love it because it's so beautifully written you can't stop reading. García Márquez's imagination marvels me and moves me to tears. /Paola, 31, Argentina It's metaphorically - and wonderfully written - a book about everything, Macondo is universal, it's a symbol we can all rely to. /Duboiz, 27, France As the author said: "cien años de soledad es un vallenato de 300 páinas". It is a very entertaining book, which takes place in the enviroment of Colombia. /Andrés Caro Borrero, 15, Colombia It's a masterpiece and he deserves to win many more awards. That's why he's the master of magic realism. It follows the saga of a family through the many challenges that do not seem to end in the beautiful country of Colombia. If you have never visited the coastal cities there you should see Aracataca, it's like you've been to Macondo from his Nobel Prize winner book. /Lupe Pedraza, 54, Canada It is an amazing work of literature. Gabriel García Márquez has the outstanding art of creating the most beautiful and intricate things out of words. He is unbelievable. By far, one of the best writers of our time. /Yvonne Rico, 21, United States Maybe it's the best Spanish language book since Cervantes. The first page is so incredible that it makes almost impossible not keeping on reading. /Carles, 44, Spain As the friend who gave it to me wrote in the first page: "Beautiful and epic, there's a fullness and a sadness, a beauty, a folkloric fatedness, a feel of magic and organic energy (like neural lightning and seeds in the ground) that just kills me." I couldn't have put it better. /Jordan Gookin, 20, United States A beautiful book. All Latin-Americans must read it. A book that, in its way, reflects the life of our country and continent. /Julián, 19, Colombia It's a wonderful story, tell much about the Latin American life without being very punctual, giving to the book an universal aspect. /Bruno de Pinho, 19, Brazil 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' is a complete novel, it has everything you want in a good book. When you think about Macondo you think about a little part of the world which resumes what the universe culd be. It's a really great novel. /Rodrigo, 20, Bolivia I love this book for the richness of its characters, for the color with which García Márquez describes the South American culture. The narrative opens a world of infinite possibilities with only the imagination to guide the journey. Beautifully written and filled with comedic value. GREATEST BOOK EVER!!!!! /Patricia Diez, 24, Australia Because it is full of love to life, just like it is - sometimes a friend, sometimes the worst enemy, but always incredible. And Gabo described it in an incredible way, just perfect:) /Aneta, 26, Bulgaria Is the best because the tone of the book and the stories. /Victoria, 28, United States The way the story is written, it makes you think on what will happen next. It keeps you amused and the way he uses his imagination in the story. Between reality and fiction. /Conny Guzman, 24, United States It's a fantastic story traveling through the history of a family. This is a town that is isolated from the development of the society. They don't know many things and they are amazed when new people arrive at the town and show them new rare things. /Sofía González, 19, Mexico Marquez, in his gorgeous, sprawling prose, so disarms the reader with the humor and the charm of South America, that they unquestioningly surrender all emotions and vulnerability to Macondo, from the first sentence to the last. /Andrew Durbin, 17, United States It's magical and yet very natural. Cool events happen, and the ending is very captivating. /Derek, 17, Philippines It is a narrative masterpiece. Keeps you expecting and the unexpected happens. It is not only telling a story, it is telling history; not only from Latin America, but it is telling humanities history. /Andres Garcia, 23, Colombia It's a mirror of the Latin American culture! /Monica, 22, Mexico It perfoms a magical description of the Caribbean culture, creating a modern South American mythology that represents our true essence. /Alejandro, 36, Colombia It is a beautifully written story. /Cayley, 17, Canada When you read this book you can feel this kind of magic that makes our life colourful, soundful and loveful. /Marta, 23, Poland It's deep and innocent. And somehow mystical. /Mihaela, 24, Romania One of the most important literary achievements of the twentieth century. A masterpiece that takes the reader from the most fragile bases of mankind to it's greatest glory. A hymn to the magic of the human soul. /Pedro Perez, 36, Peru Because it's a great book, inspired I guess of a civil war that happened in Macondo, tells the history of a big family from the first member of the family until the last one and their amorous entanglements. /Sara Soria Estrugo, 19, Bolivia I recommend it for its rich and accessible style of writing. /Chuma, 27, Nigeria Because is the best book about the magic realism of the Caribbean countries. I think it is the best book in Spanish. /Juan Carlos Mantilla, 43, Colombia It's magic, it's fantastic ... I'm wordless. /Adair, 49, Brazil On of the most touching novels I have ever read. So rich and vivid and such a page turner. The author is a true artist - the world of Macondo and the Buendia characters are so human yet so idealistic at the same time ... you end up falling in love with them and living their dreams, and then, you just cry ... / Sylwia, 21, United States Because it is one of the best illustrations of fine Latin American literary work ever written. /Griselle, 28, United States I couldn't put this book down even though I didn't know what it was about until the last 3 pages, where the secret is finally revealed! Márquez is definitely the best contemporary writer of prose! /Teo Chee Tat, 24, Singapore It has opened my eyes up to a whole new world, where the fantastic is just as real as reality itself. His book has, no doubt, influenced me as an aspiring fiction writer. /Samantha Turner, 15, United States I recommend this book because of its extraodinary power of creating a world where supernatural and reality coexist without boundaries, and where illusions have some power and accuracy like real things. /Florian, 28, Romania 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' belongs to the tradition of Magic Realism, where the supernatural and the everyday are blended, so as to give the impression of being ordinary. In Gabriel’s novel the life of the family, over many generations, is interwoven with the constant upheaval of civil wars, flood and the coming of the banana plantations; however, these incidents of exploitation and repression, are blended like metals, with the supernatural events that occur in one family over many generations. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is itself possessed of the creative magic that Gabriel invokes. /Aaron J. Clarke, 33, Australia Because the author used another kind of writing, I mean he wrote about real things and magic things. /Luis Alberto, 21, Colombia For its broad sweep, mind-blowing mix of history, social structure and everyday life with an amazing intensity of characters. /Shagun, 21, India I read it when I was taking up my undergraduate studies in Political Science. I found it among the books piled in the SALE section but I bought it anyway because it was cheap. I never thought that the book would become one of my favorite books. I actually like Love in the Time of Cholera more than One Hundred Years of Solitude, mostly because of the main theme of the former book - love. One Hundred Years of Solitude was a confusing and heartbreaking yet down-to-earth story. It tells of the complexities of human nature, the violence, the fear, the hope. The story is an irony. It tells deeply about the people and the events and yet it simply describes them. How Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the book is simply amazing. In fact, I could not get enough of his magical realism style. The simple and ordinary events are made into an extraordinary story. His words are lyrical yet simple. I had a hard time telling whether the book was fiction or not. Yet at the same time, it was fiction indeed. It was magical. Truly magical. I think that while reading the book, I was in Macondo. Surveying the scenes, soaked in the rains, dried in the heat. Truly magnificent! /Psyche Castillon, 20, Philippines I read the book two or three years ago, It was something amazing. I couldn't leave the book. It was attracting me. All the "magic" things in this book seem so real, that you find yourself in the book's atmosphere. I am learning German now, and I read the book in German. It's pretty hard, but I want to finish it again. I recommend this book to everyone. /Andrei Lintu, 23, Romania For lucidity and poetry combined ... a jewel. /Mauricio Zarate, 34, United States The book makes you live a period of the Colombian history with fantasy, involving many facts of Latin American culture. /Nicolás Borrero, 23, Colombia This novel evoked a true sadness in me. The characters, the prose, everything about it was wonderful. Highly recommended. /Jeremy, 14, United States I read the book two years ago. I can still feel the same vibrations around me that I felt while reading the book. Marquez did a great job in making the characters walk before me. The plot is a dream lived by extra-ordinary but real characters. Every step of the story is LIFE! /Mamatha, 27, India Simply amazing. I was shaking, with goose bumps cropping up on my arms and neck, as I read the last sentence. /Jason Rolfe, 23, United States I really recommend it. Gabriel plays with our attention and imagination. At the end, we understand the reason behind the book's title. It's one of the greatest readings and it's also entertaining ... it's just a great novel. You can't stop reading it. /Gabriela, 17, El Salvador This Nobel (Gabo) is the best latin-american writer, and this is the best novel in the world, to dream and turn on the imagination. Nice piece of literature. /Ricardo Vidal, 28, El Salvador For its deeply mix of fantasy and realism, transforms simple life in an exiting adventure. /Sebastián Soto Salas, 13, Chile I recommend it because it is a sweeping epic novel that is accessible to everyone. It is an amazing retelling of the Book of Genesis is thoroughly enjoyable. /Edwin Castro, 21, Afghanistan It's so great. It's a book without time and place. When i read it I felt like the whole world was passing around me so fast ... like those movies whose character stands and everything continues normal. /Helena Sarria, 20, Portugal One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel that captures the experience of dreaming. The extraordinary happenings, that are only realized to be absurd, after they have taken place. Yet the realization of the absurdity of the events does not diminish their emotional impact. This novel is a dream in and of itself, a surreal environment in which the amazing happens. /Max Baroi, 15, United States The author spoke with such clarity. He had the perfect words to describe certain feelings, even the most complex, and made them universal. But what made the novel more special for me was that the weirdest things sounded like normal, everyday things, and the process of making them believable seemed effortless. /Katrina, 16, Philippines Once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down; being a hispanic I was able to relate to the storytelling that Gabriel emulates. I could hear my grandmother telling me factual incidents that had that "fantastical" twist. Besides that theme, Gabriel also illustrates the idea of history or at least experiences being repeated in time. I love this book. /Alex Perez, 17, United States This amazing story of the decay of the virginity of a civilisation is always a mirror to how the madness of superpowers raped our aborigin existence ... I really was mad while going thru the book. /Dev Raj Joshi, 21, Nepal The book makes an illusion. Everything was told so subtly but impartially that we become amazed. Whenever i dig into my thinking, it seems to me that I know the village Macondo. /Russel Ahmed, 29, United Kingdom This is the best book ever written! I would sincerely carry it with me to my grave! /Soumitra, 28, Norway Deep. Lyric. Visual. Imaginative. Creative. Touching. Loneliness. Love. Passion. Sex. Urge for freedom. Nostalgia. Family. /Okidan, 20, Azerbaijan

Strange Pilgrims (Doce centos peregrinos)	Reading short stories is a simple way to get to know authors, and determine if one would continue to read this author's longer works. 'Strange Pilgrims' is a collection of very strange stories indeed! Strange, yet powerful, because Márquez looks at death and other scary issues so differently, and he has the power to scare one and wake one up from the customary way of life. Márquez's language is simply beautiful, and humorous at the same time, making him the best writer I have come across. /Teo Chee Tat, 23, Singapore

The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otono del patriarca)	The dictators of the past and present day and their follies and silliness are vividly portrayed. /Zahir Shah, 40, Pakistan For its deep, sensitive, magic, darkly humorous, necessary, realistic approach to one of Latin America's worst vices, dictatorship. If you loved 'One Hundred years of Solitude', you really should read this one next. /Jorge Orellana, 24, Canada It is a difficult but very beautiful book. Latin America have the sad record of terrible dictatorships, and this novel tells that history in a crude and poetic way. /Alejandro Caballero Salas, 27, Chile

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