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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories (Penguin International Writers)
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Product Description
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world...These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Marquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #365325 in Books
- Published on: 1994-09-29
- Original language: Spanish
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
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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
Short, sharp, sweet and beautifully written
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written a fair few wonderful novels in his time, yet I have heard people remark that his longer works can sometimes meander and lose their way. For people who tried 'Love in the time of Cholera' or 'One hundred years of Solitude' and found they liked the style but thought the plot too diffuse, THIS is the book for you. Wonderfully turned tales from different times and places. All the stories here were concieved as one book, worked on over a good few years and then revised an re-written in one fell swoop. It is because these stories were written together that they seem to hang together well as one piece. A wonderful demonstration of what short stories should be like.
