num_pages: 192
description: "The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New YorkerThis collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother."Garcí­a Márquez's fictional universe has the same staggeringly gratifying density and texture as Proust's Faubourg Saint-Germain and Joyce's Dublin....Arguably the best of the Latin Americans."--Martin Kaplan, The New Republic"It is the genius of the mature Garcí­a Márquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death.'--John Leonard, New York Times
language: English
title: Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
genres: Spanish Literature, Short Stories, Nobel Prize, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 18725
publisher: Perennial Classics