by Gabriel García Márquez · Bruguera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402078193
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«La hojarasca» is Gabriel García Márquez's first novel, published by Bruguera in hardback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place in Macondo and is told by three voices: an old colonel, his daughter and his grandson, gathered before a corpse that stirs old grudges. The work portrays the arrival of banana exploitation in the town and the trail of violence and abandonment it leaves after a bloody workers' rebellion, a silent revenge that prefigures the universe the author would later develop.
Part of the Club Bruguera collection, number 65, in the Bruguera Universal Literature series.
Recommended for readers who want to approach the literary beginnings of Gabriel García Márquez and the atmosphere of Macondo before Cien años de soledad.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
