Angelo Morino Boeken

These twelve extraordinary stories by South America's preeminent man of letters, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the renowned classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and the international best-seller Love in the Time of Cholera, are set in contemporary Europe and recount the peculiar and amazing experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting or living abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President is befriended in Geneva by an ambitious ambulance driver and his headstrong wife. Margarito Duarte comes to Rome from the Colombian Andes with a box the shape and size of a cello case in order to show the Pope its contents. A woman who wears a snake ring with emerald eyes and is known only as Frau Frieda to the Latin American students in Vienna makes a living by telling her dreams to wealthy families. A pretty Mexican music hall performer is returning to Barcelona when her car breaks down, and she ends up in an insane asylum. In Tuscany, a vacationing family visits a Renaissance castle now owned by a famous Venezuelan writer and meets up with a phantom. Maria dos Prazeres, once Barcelona's most sought-after lady of the night, has a dream in which death appears, so she begins to plan her own funeral. A widow dressed in the habit of Saint Francis sails to Rome from Argentina to meet the Pope. A beautiful Caribbean boy is driven mad in Spain. A German governess destroys the summer for her wards - and is herself destroyed. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife with a cut on her ring finger to a hospital in Paris - and never sees her again. Once again in this breathtaking collection, Gabriel Garcia Marquez invites us into worlds of majesty and magic, from which we emerge spellbound.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

Als twee journalistes na een drukke werkdag worden klemgereden, denken ze aan een roofoverval. Maar als hun chauffeur wordt doodgeschoten en de twee vrouwen in gereedstaande auto's worden geduwd, beseffen ze dat ze het slachtoffer zijn van een ontvoering. Begin jaren negentig werd de Colombiaanse samenleving geteisterd door een reeks ontvoeringen. De in het nauw gedreven drugsbaron Pablo Escobar probeerde met zijn terreurdaden de regering onder druk te zetten om daarmee zo gunstig mogelijke voorwaarden af te dwingen voor zijn overgave. Ontvoeringsbericht laat zien wat de invloed van deze gebeurtenissen is op het leven van de slachtoffers en hun familie en op de stabiliteit van een land als geheel.

Liefde in tijden van cholera is het onvergetelijke liefdesverhaal van Florentino Ariza en Fermina. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze worden grote thema's als liefde, dood, ouderdom, noodlot en begeerte samengebracht in een mild en menselijk universum.

Set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18-century colonial Colombia, this is the story of Sierva Maria and the priest Cayetano Delaura, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction.

In this Nobel Prize-winning novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the vibrant life of young Marito in 1960s Lima, Peru. His world shifts with the arrival of his older aunt Julia, sparking a secret romance, and the eccentric scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose wild soap operas captivate the city. A masterful blend of humor and chaos.

'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination - as real for him as memories - he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

È un universo leggero e affollato, fondato meno sul dramma che sull'ironia, che ruota intorno a due straordinari personaggi: da una parte Pedro Camacho, prolifico autore di radiodrammi per Radio Central a Lima, e dall'altra Mario, giovane studente perdigiorno che coltiva una sua ambizione letteraria e che si innamora della zia divorziata, Julia appunto, con la quale finirà per convolare a nozze con grande scandalo dei familiari. E mentre Pedro scivolerà a poco a poco in una dolce e inconcludente follia, confondendo sempre più gravemente le trame dei suoi sceneggiati e condannandosi infine al silenzio, Mario diventerà invece uno scrittore di successo, che quando incontrerà di nuovo il suo antico "modello", potrà vedere nell'oblio di lui una sorta di prefigurazione del suo futuro, o forse del destino di tutti gli uomini.