Angelo Morino Livres

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.

Maruja Pachon fut enlevée en septembre 1990, en même temps que huit autres personnalités, par le bras armé du cartel de Medellin. A partir des témoignages de ceux qui furent directement ou indirectement mêlés à cette atroce aventure dans laquelle périrent deux otages, Gabriel Garcia Marquez nous entraîne dans un thriller qui a pour cadre la guerre totale déclarée par les narcotrafiquants colombiens à un gouvernement qui avait décidé de les anéantir. Autour de Maruja et de son mari Alberto, gravitent les protagonistes d'une réalité qui dépasse souvent la fiction : les otages et leurs familles, le Président et ses conseillers, confrontés à la folie meurtrière d'un Pablo Escobar omniprésent dans ce drame qui commence comme un fait divers et se déroule comme un grand roman jusqu'à la reddition du plus puissant parrain des temps modernes.

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.

Pour son 90e anniversaire, un vieil homme s'offre une nuit avec une jeune fille innocente dans un bordel. En l'observant endormie, il découvre pour la première fois l'amour. Un roman empreint de mélancolie et d'humour, mêlant sagesse et tendresse.