{"title":"Gabriel García Márquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), também conhecido como Gabo, nasceu na aldeia de Aracataca nas imediações de Barranquilla, Colômbia. Começou seu trabalho de jornalista em 1949, atuando em diversos jornais e cidades, inclusive como correspondente internacional em Nova York para o jornal \u003cem\u003eEl Espectador\u003c\/em\u003e. Posteriormente, sua obra jornalística foi compilada e publicada em 5 volumes. Mas foi na ficção que alcançou reconhecimento internacional, sendo autor de alguns dos maiores romances do século XX e considerado mestre do realismo mágico latino-americano. Em 1982, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura pelo conjunto de sua obra. Entre suas principais obras estão \u003cem\u003eCem anos de solidão\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO amor nos tempos de cólera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrônica de uma morte anunciada\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNotícia de um sequestro\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eMemória de minhas putas tristes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-incrivel-e-triste-historia-da-candida-erendira-e-sua-avo-desalmada","title":"The incredible and sad story of Candida Erendira and her heartless grandmother","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIn this collection of seven short stories, Gabriel García Márquez shows the impact of strange events on the characters' daily lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWritten in the best Gabriel García Márquez style, the seven short stories that comprise the collection \u003cem\u003e\"The Incredible and Sad Story of Candida Erêndira and Her Heartless Grandmother\"\u003c\/em\u003e bear the mark of injustice and domination; texts in which magical realism serves as an escape valve for the precarious living conditions of an exploited people. At the same time, they reflect the plurality, culture, and capacity for imagination and survival of the Spanish-American continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In the final story, which gives the book its title, young Cândida Erêndira falls exhausted into bed with a candelabra beside her. She awakens to the remains of a devastating fire. Her grandmother blames her for what happened and decides she will pay for the damage by prostituting herself. After years of exploitation, Ulisses's love may be the only salvation from a sad fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eMetaphors of Latin America, the stories in this book have never been so similar to reality and, at the same time, so different from it. A characteristic that only García Márquez, a master of contemporary literature, can bestow upon a work.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159214833916,"sku":"9788501006356","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/99683d8b73a8865f6aa2ef6cd9755b68_4a664315-2696-4c73-8a65-c042eec122dc.jpg?v=1778315582"},{"product_id":"relato-de-um-naufrago","title":"Account of a castaway","description":"\" \u003cp\u003eOn February 28, 1955, eight crew members of the Colombian Navy destroyer Caldas went overboard and disappeared during a storm in the Caribbean Sea. Only one of them survived, Luis Alexandre Velasco, who, after spending ten days adrift without food or drink, was found half-dead on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. Virtually kidnapped by the authorities and placed in a naval hospital, he was only allowed to speak to regime journalists during this time, and only one from the opposition, disguised as a doctor, managed to interview him. All of Colombia was then under the folkloric dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and Velasco was transformed into a national hero, giving patriotic speeches on radio and television.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eShortly thereafter, Luís Alexandre Veloso entered the El Espectador newsroom offering his story, which by then was nothing more than old news. Although he assumed he wouldn't have much to say, as the government had clearly set the limits on his statements, the editor-in-chief followed his intuition and made a deal with Velasco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In twenty six-hour daily sessions, Velasco recounted the tragedy to then-novice reporter Gabriel García Márquez, who discovered that no storm had occurred, but rather an accident: the destroyer was carrying contraband, and having listed due to the force of the rough seas, the cargo broke loose and swept the eight sailors overboard. The revelation of what had really happened immediately became a political denunciation. The country was gripped by great uproar, which robbed the shipwrecked sailor of his glory and led to the reporter's exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Shipwrecked Sailor's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e shows us that Gabo, Gabriel García Márquez's affectionate nickname, is much more than One Hundred Years of Solitude. 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Gabriel García Márquez, the master of magical realism, uses Barcelona, Geneva, Rome, and Paris as backdrops to portray loneliness through brilliant stories of love, power, and death in a book he spent 18 years writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBeginning with the short story \"Good Journey, Mr. President,\" about an elderly leader of an unknown Caribbean country overthrown by a military coup and exiled to Geneva, where he seeks a cure for his back problem; moving on to \"Mrs. Forbes's Happy Summer,\" about two children who spend the summer on the island of Pantelleria, in southern Sicily, under the care of a governess who is extremely strict with them, but not so much with herself; and concluding with \"The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow,\" the tragic story of two newlyweds traveling from Madrid to Paris, \u003cem\u003eTwelve Pilgrim Tales\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with stories endowed with the sensitivity and humor that are the hallmarks of the great master, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159220404476,"sku":"9788501040664","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7b2500111e03e4aec41cd5f76302a84b.jpg?v=1778876042"},{"product_id":"o-amor-nos-tempos-do-colera-edicao-especial","title":"Love in the Time of Cholera (Special Edition)","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe special hardcover edition of one of Gabriel García Márquez's most important books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e While still very young, telegraphist, violinist, and poet Gabriel Elígio Garciá fell in love with Luiza Márquez, but the romance faced opposition from her father, Colonel Nicolas, who tried to prevent the marriage by sending his daughter to the countryside on a year-long trip. To maintain his love, Gabriel, with the help of telegraphist friends, set up a communications network that reached Luiza wherever she was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis is the true story of Gabriel García Márquez's parents and was the starting point for \u003cem\u003e*Love in the Time of Cholera*\u003c\/em\u003e , which follows the love affair between telegrapher, violinist, and poet Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. The book began in 1984 in Cartagena de las Indias, at the end of the sabbatical García Márquez took after receiving the Nobel Prize. There, the author collected some of the events recounted in the book, such as the cholera epidemic that ravaged the city in the late 19th century and the sinking of the Spanish galleon San Jose, laden with jewels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/em\u003e , as its name suggests, is a beautiful love story, punctuated by scented letters and flower petals pressed between the pages. And not just a simple story, but a grand treatise on love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFlorentino Ariza's never-written treatise, which contained three thousand sample letters for lovers in three volumes, encompassing all the possibilities of love. The passionate love of adolescence, conjugal love, clandestine love, shy love, sexual or libertine love. The tedium of love, its struggles, forgetfulness, metamorphoses, its betrayals and illnesses, triumphs, anguish, and pleasures. Love in letters, the awakening of this love, near or far, mad love. The love of half a century, which finds septuagenarian lovers touching for the first time. The love that is kept and awaits, finally, its fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159235477756,"sku":"9788501108159","price":159.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/777dbf98238766e7baedf0867647a0b4_3532ed35-3edc-4ebb-89bf-b94aa55373bb.jpg?v=1778322662"},{"product_id":"em-agosto-nos-vemos","title":"See you in August","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn extraordinary novel that only Gabriel García Márquez could write, \u003cem\u003e*In August We See You*\u003c\/em\u003e , the author's unpublished and posthumous book, is a hymn to life, feminine desire, and the resilience of pleasure despite the passage of time. An unexpected gift to the world from the Nobel Prize winner in Literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEvery August, Anna Magdalena Bach takes a boat to a Caribbean island to place a bouquet of gladioli on her mother's grave. Every year, she stays at a hotel and, before bed, goes downstairs for a bite to eat at the bar. To be on the safe side, she always orders the same ham and cheese sandwich and then goes upstairs to her room. Until, one day, a man invites her for a drink. And, after the first sip of her gin and soda, feeling bold, cheerful, capable of anything—including shedding her marital bonds, momentarily forgetting her husband and children—she gives in to the stranger's advances and takes him to her room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e That particular night changes Ana Magdalena—and her life—forever. And after that experience, she looks forward to each August, when she not only visits her mother's grave but also has the chance to choose a different lover every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWritten in the fascinating and unmistakable style of one of the greatest icons of Latin American literature, \u003cem\u003eEm agosto nos vêes\u003c\/em\u003e paints the portrait of a woman discovering her desires and delving deeper into her fears. A gem that will delight fans of the late Gabo, as well as new readers of this great writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “No writer since Dickens has been so widely read and so beloved as Gabriel García Márquez.” - Salman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"It could be said that few authors have written books that changed the entire course of literature. 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It is there that we follow several generations of this family, as well as the rise and fall of the village. Beyond the technical devices and literary influences that overflow from the book, we also see within its pages what many consider a veritable encyclopedia of the imagination, in a style that consecrated the Colombian as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In no other book has García Márquez strived so hard to capture the tone with which his maternal grandmother recounted the most fantastical episodes without altering a single facial feature. 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And Gabriel García Márquez, a young reporter, was assigned to oversee the removal of the chapel's burial crypts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e What struck this Colombian man most was the tomb of a young girl, which reminded him of the legends his grandmother had told him. According to her, in the Caribbean, there was a little marquise who had \"hair that trailed like the train of a wedding dress.\" Revered for her miracles, she was bitten by a dog and died of rabies. Could that little marquise from his childhood be buried there?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e García Márquez tells the story of the only daughter of a marquis, raised among slaves and orishas, and a priest tasked with exorcising the demons believed to have possessed the little girl, whose hair would only be cut at her wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Of Love and Other Demons\"\u003c\/em\u003e thus stems from an inspiration nearly half a century old. But its story goes further. García Márquez travels to Colombia, still a Spanish colony, to compose a love story shrouded in mystery, sorcery, and witchcraft, culminating in a trial initiated by the Inquisition. Once again, a theme immortalized in world literature—one of the desires that determines passions and reaches the deepest roots of human beings: love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e A tender evocation of a colonial past that poignantly amplifies the loneliness of an era and its people, this is \u003cem\u003eOf Love and Other Demons\u003c\/em\u003e . 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Beyond the technical devices and literary influences that overflow from the book, we also see within its pages what many consider a veritable encyclopedia of the imaginary, in a style that consecrated the Colombian as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e , published in 1967, is a magnificent and timeless work, from which we can draw numerous parallels with our own existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/strong\u003e (96 pages)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe narrator immediately pronounces: \"On the day they would kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning.\" Fatality, destiny, the absurdity of human existence. In this plot, García Márquez assembles a puzzle whose pieces gradually fit together, through the overlapping versions of witnesses who were close to Santiago Nasar on the last day of his life. What and whom to believe? How to dismiss the bias of the versions and the \"broken mirror of memory\" of those involved. This is what the reader will discover throughout the sober and direct narrative, whose structure borrows the journalistic rigor of the reconstruction of events so dear to García Márquez. Throughout, however, the author maintains the poetry, sensuality, and beauty of his story and his characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/strong\u003e (400 pages)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWhile still very young, telegraphist, violinist, and poet Gabriel Elígio García fell in love with Luiza Márquez, but the romance faced opposition from her father, Colonel Nicolas, who tried to prevent the marriage by sending his daughter to the countryside on a year-long trip. 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Presenting itself in various ways, it is an inevitable presence, summing up an entire life experience that defines the characters. There are stories of the dead acquiring awareness of death, in that intermediate zone between the living being—still conscious—and the dead being—who seeks to acquire consciousness, such as the man who is both \"body\" and \"skull\" in the short story \"The Third Renunciation.\" There are also lives that are like deaths, as in the stories \"The Other Rib of Death\" and \"Eva Is Inside Her Cat.\" This same death presents itself as a solution to the existential problem, as it provides a fulfillment impossible to achieve in the course of life, as in \"Nabo, the Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEyes of a Blue Dog\u003c\/em\u003e , García Márquez recreates the magical Hispanic-American reality, inserting contemporary man into it with his existential problems, his enigmas, and his dreams. 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Fascinating stories that young and old alike will remember forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The story “Tuesday’s Siesta” follows a woman who, with a little girl, tries to protect herself from the scorching sun with a black umbrella as she walks through the deserted streets of a town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In \"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,\" we follow the mysterious appearance of a winged elderly man in the home of a very simple man. Could he be an angel sent from heaven?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship,” a man recalls the night in his youth when a ship ran aground off the coast of a small Caribbean town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"Mrs. Forbes's Happy Summer\" tells the story of two brothers who are sent to Sicily for the holidays. They never imagined they'd have the strict Mrs. Forbes as their guardian. They play tricks on her and constantly think of ways to get rid of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The fifth story tells the adventures of two brothers who discover that \"Light is like water.\" When their parents leave the house, they \"turn on the light\" and sail through the waterfalls that flood their home. And this adventure has a surprising ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In “Maria dos Prazeres”, the reader learns the story of an elderly woman who is convinced that she will die before Christmas, after a premonitory dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe creative and enchanted world of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature is portrayed in this work, which uses fables filled with dreamlike situations that stimulate, entertain, and impress. 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It is the intimate and sincere account of a woman about to celebrate her 25th wedding anniversary.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Nothing is so much like hell as a happy marriage!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThus begins Graciela Jaraiz de la Vera—wife of a comfortable man, grandson of a marquis—on the eve of her silver wedding anniversary. Thus begins her monologue, her frustrated dialogue about public happiness and private unhappiness, about the parallel between social ascension and the growth of heartbreak. Graciela addresses her husband, but he says nothing, simply sitting in a dark suit in the armchair reading the newspaper. In reality, according to García Márquez, he is a mannequin, an object onto which she projects the disenchantment of a life marked by loss: of trust in him, of respect for him, of the value of her feelings for him. All to discover that, despite her resentment, she cannot stop loving him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eUnpublished in Brazil, \u003cem\u003e\"Diatribe of Love Against a Sitting Man\"\u003c\/em\u003e is a one-act monologue for a single actress, the only play written by Gabriel García Márquez. First performed in Buenos Aires in 1988 at the IV Ibero-American Theater Festival, this book is a short text, but of unparalleled depth. A union of the tragic and the satirical, it is the reconstruction of a life as a couple, the portrait of a woman imprisoned by a love she knows cannot be shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"The truth is that happiness is not as they say, that it only lasts a moment, and we only know we had it when it's gone. 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A fundamental novel in the history of literature, \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e presents one of the most fascinating literary adventures of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, it's a work we should all have on our bookshelves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e , one of the greatest classics of literature, the prestigious author narrates the incredible and sad story of the Buendías—the lineage of loners who will not be given \"a second chance on earth\"—and introduces the wonderful world of the fictional Macondo, where the novel is set. It is there that we follow several generations of this family, as well as the rise and fall of the village. 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Conheça a vasta correspondência trocada entre quatro dos autores mais influentes da literatura latino-americana, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez e Mario Vargas Llosa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs décadas de 1950 a 1970 testemunharam um dos momentos mais célebres da história literária do século XX: o Boom da literatura latino-americana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuito além de uma simples coincidência de talentos, o que se formou foi uma constelação intelectual movida por afinidades eletivas, ambições estéticas e compromissos políticos que, juntos, produziram uma reconfiguração sem precedentes da literatura latino-americana. 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Os autores surgem sob os holofotes não apenas pelo êxito de suas carreiras literárias, mas pela relação nutrida entre o quarteto, que se manteve próximo em diferentes níveis durante a extensão de seus anos dourados.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs cartas do Boom\u003c\/em\u003e oferece ao leitor um acesso privilegiado à intimidade desse movimento por meio da correspondência trocada pelo quarteto, que registra com franqueza os bastidores da criação literária, os dilemas editoriais, as tensões ideológicas e os afetos — ora solidários, ora conflituosos — que compuseram esse momento de euforia e ruptura. Mais do que documentos biográficos, esses escritos epistolares revelam a complexa teia de relações que sustentaram o Boom, bem como seus inevitáveis desgastes. 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Para além dos artifícios técnicos e das influências literárias que transbordam do livro, ainda vemos em suas páginas o que por muitos é considerada uma autêntica enciclopédia do imaginário, num estilo que consagrou Gabriel García Márquez como um dos maiores escritores do século XX.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEm nenhum outro livro o autor colombiano empenhou-se tanto para alcançar o tom com que sua avó materna lhe contava os episódios mais fantásticos sem alterar um só traço do rosto. Assim, ao mesmo tempo que a incrível e triste história dos Buendía pode ser entendida como uma enciclopédia do imaginário, ela é narrada de modo a parecer que tudo faz parte da mais banal das realidades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabo, apelido de Gabriel García Márquez, costumava dizer que todo grande escritor está sempre escrevendo o mesmo livro. “E qual seria o seu?”, perguntaram-lhe. “O livro da solidão”, foi a resposta. Apesar disso, ele não considerava \u003cem\u003eCem anos\u003c\/em\u003e sua melhor obra (gostava demais de \u003cem\u003eO outono do patriarca\u003c\/em\u003e). O que importa? O certo é que nenhum outro romance resume tão bem o formidável talento desse contador de histórias de solitários – que se espalham e se espalharão por muito mais de cem anos pelas Macondos do mundo inteiro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOs milhões de exemplares vendidos de uma obra que abriu caminho no “boca a boca”, como gostava de dizer Gabo, são a mais palpável demonstração de que a aventura fabulosa da família Buendía-Iguarán, com milagres, fantasias, obsessões, tragédias, incestos, adultérios, rebeldias, descobertas e condenações, representa ao mesmo tempo o mito e a história, o drama e o amor de um mundo inteiro. 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