Revisiting the works of late Gabriel Garcia Marquez on his 91st birth anniversary

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' narrates the history of a family that starts with José Arcadio Buendía and culminates with Aureliano Babilonia. The book is a masterpiece , which explores magical realism, by blending elements of mystery and human experience. (Photo | Amazon.in)

'The Autumn of the Patriarch' is an experimental novel which uncovers the mystery of power. It is a poetic work which hovers around the solitude of power. In the novel, Márquez represents many Latin American dictators through the characterisation of his mythical Latin American dictator. (Photo | Amazon.in)

'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' is a murder mystery in which the narrator attempts to figure out the incidents which lead to the murder of Santiago Nasar after twenty-seven years of its occurrence. The narrator tries to sort out the puzzle by drawing out his own memories with the accounts of the witnesses. (Photo | Amazon.in)

'Love in the Time of Cholera', set in civil-war- torn Colombia celebrates love over despair.It revolves around Florentino Ariza, who waits for nearly fifty years in the memory of an unrequited love. (Photo | Amazon.in)

'Of love and other demons' hovers around the conflict between science and religion. It questions the Catholic church of eighteenth century for blind demonic practices in Medicine. (Photo | Amazon.in)

'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor' is a real life account of a sailor named Luis Alejandro Velasco, who underwent a series of survival battles, after being tossed overboard from his ship. A young and struggling Marquez was asked to ghostwrite the story of the sailor, who was later proclaimed as a national hero. (Photo | Amazon.in)