Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Broschiertes Buch

Collected Stories

Beschreibung

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

Autor

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Perennial Classics edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 136mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780060932688
• ISBN-10: 0060932686
• Artikelnr.: 21175475

Rezensionen

Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do Salman Rushdie