Strange pilgrims
Subtitle: twelve stories
By: by Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Edition: 1st International Vintage ed
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781400034697
Subjects: Latin Americans -- Europe -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories, Colombian -- Translations into English
Work titles: Doce cuentos peregrinos.
Description: The 12 stories in this shimmering collection poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of narrative sorcery by the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Notes: Prologue written by the author, 1992
Table of contents: title: Bon voyage, Mr. President; title: The saint; title: Sleeping Beauty and the airplane; title: I sell my dreams; title: "I only came to use the phone"; title: The ghosts of August; title: Maria dos Prazeres; title: Seventeen poisoned Englishmen; title: Tramontana; title: Miss Forbes's summer of happiness; title: Light is like water; title: The trail of your blood in the snow