Gabriel García Márquez
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" ... El 28 de febrero de 1955 el destructor Caldas, que viajaba de Estados Unidos a Colombia, sufrió un accidente. Con la finalidad de rescatar a los náufragos, las fuerzas norteamericanas del canal de Panamá peinaron la zona cercana al siniestro. Después de cuatro días de búsqueda no encontraron ningún y se desistió de la búsqueda. Una semana más tarde apareció Luis Alejandro Velasco, quien después de pasar logró llegar a tierra en...
12) Pedro Páramo
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"A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint...
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Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
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Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza are in love with each other, but due to his poor social status, Fermina decides to marry a wealthy doctor, Dr. Juvenal Urbino, instead. Florentino Seeks solace in the arms of many other women, but never can love any one, for his heart truly belongs to Fermina. Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.