This novel is based on the event occurred in 1955, when the Caldas, a Colombian ship was swamped in high seas on its return to Cartagena. Several men were swept overboard and died, except the sailor, Luis Alejandro Velasco. He managed to survive for ten days, and became a national hero. Velaso decided to reveal the truth to Marquez - the negligence and incompetence of the government.

This is a short novel about a malicious oppression which grips a town and is similar to No One Writes to the Colonel. The setting is the same and involves some of the same characters. The town experiences tensions that run high against a violent and shifting backdrop of politics. Ridicule and rumors on various members appear, and it leads everyone to involve. As the story progresses, people in the town become malicious and violent.

This novel is a tale that tells the complete story of the fictional town of Macondo beginning with its founding by the patriarch of the Buendias family, and ending over a century later with its destruction by a devastating hurricane. It spans six generations of the Buendias family, and trails them through their passions and emotions, rise and fall, growth and decay, peace and war.

It is about an archetypal South American tyrant, a vicious creature whose genius at politics and survival is set off against his profound loneliness and fear. His power is built up in a complex support structure, and he lives to be anywhere between 107 and 232 years old without the capability to love...

This is a detective story places its subject on the death of Santiago Nasar as a murder. The death has taken place in a tightly knit community. It involves a marriage, a virginity lost by the bride at the wrong time, an explanation that may not have been true and the death of the alleged male culprit at the hands of revengeful men...

This book was published in 1990 which includes his three novellas Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

This story takes place in a country on the Caribbean coast of South American, tracing the lives of three people and their fates. As a love tale, it describes the love journey of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. They were almost engaged until Florentino showed bad grace at the funeral of her husband, a leader in the fight against the cholera epidemics, and she abandoned him. The tale then went back to their early lives when they first met, courted and forced apart.

The subject of this novel is Simon Bolivar, whom Garcia Marquez removes from the prison of history and places into his magical transformation. The Liberator is seen at the end of his life, taking a seven month river voyage from Bogota to the sea. As the journey progresses from port to port, Bolivar mirrors this journey in his head, passing from one subject of his life to another - his war, defeats, passions, sins, and loves, which are all told against the background and weight of the history that the General helps to create.

This book is a collection of twelve stories that revolve around a similar theme. These stories all feature Latin American characters wandering in Europe, and combine the characters' terror and nostalgia.

This haunting novel takes place in a colonial seaport in South America. It is about the tale of a strange girl named Sierva Maria, who does not know whether she has contracted rabies. A young priest, Father Cayetano Delaura comes and tries to assist her. However, the priest soon discovers that he is the one who needs exorcism, for he begins to fall in love with her...