Strange Pilgrims [electronic resource]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez2014
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Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive
South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca
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 f...
Main title:
Strange Pilgrims [electronic resource] / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Author:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (208 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141917276
Language:
English
BRN:
428687
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