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Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN: 9780241968659 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback

PUBLICATION DATE: 6.03.2014 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX13mm 149grams

DESCRIPTION: Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha.' The twelve stories here 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; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer. "Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness, the stories draw their strength from Marquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent". (William Boyd). "The most important writer of fiction in any language". (Bill Clinton). "Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself". (New Statesman). As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, work

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