Angelo Morino Books

This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them 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

A disturbing account of how Pablo Escobar - boss of the Medellin cocaine cartel - undermined all Colombia's civil institutions by murder or bribery. It is also a moving exploration of the fate of Escobar's kidnapped hostages, relatives of politicians, who were mostly middle-aged or elderly women.

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

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.

Da un'antica tomba nel convento delle clarisse emerge una lunghissima chioma rossa. Da questo evento ha origine il romanzo, ambientato in una Cartagena de Indias perduta in un oscuro passato coloniale. Una bellissima bambina, un medico negromante e un giovane esorcista posseduto dal mal d'amore sono protagonisti di una passione innaturale e distruttiva. García Márquez dà vita a pagine di struggente poesia e di emozionato pudore e conduce il lettore in un universo capace di travolgere i sensi e i sentimenti in nome di una passione erotica che diventa malattia, metafora della letteratura e della vita.

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.