Strange Pilgrims by Marquez Gabriel Garcia
A collection of stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe. It features twelve stories that tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; and an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave.
Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve * Observer *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddnessThe stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent * William Boyd *
Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve * Observer *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness. The stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent * William Boyd *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddnessThe stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent * William Boyd *
Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve * Observer *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness. The stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent * William Boyd *
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141032498 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141032499 |
| Title | Strange Pilgrims |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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