Product Description

Whilst her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over… Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Eréndira must repay her for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Eréndira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302883 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez (Guardian )

Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do (Salman Rushdie )

'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what 'fabulous' really means' Time Out

About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Customer Reviews

An excellent way to start on Garcia Marquez and Macondo
A wonderfull collection of stories with the best of Garcia Marquez' magical realism, which introduces the reader to life in Macondo and the author's writting style. I recommend you read this book before trying 100 years of solitude because the short stories are much simpler but just as amusing. Once you start reading it you won't be able to stop.

Not that great
I have read 7 or 8 of Marquez's books and this is by far the worst I have read. Some of the stories I just could not finish as for want of a better word, they were complete 'gibberish'. Maybe it is the translations or the fact that some were written over 50 years ago but I get a feeling that he is sometimes being too clever and the meaning gets completely lost.