Collected Stories [electronic resource]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez2014
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Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's spellbinding
short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the
everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez is known for.
Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in
his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and
Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a every old angel with
enormous wings, stranded in a young couple's back garden; a town plagued by
dying birds that fall from the sky and an awestruck village captivated by a
beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels
are loved, Marquez's stories are a delight.
'These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is
essence of Marquez' Guardian
'Of all the living a...
Main title:
Collected Stories [electronic resource] / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Author:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (304 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141917450
Language:
English
BRN:
434755
Electronic access:
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |