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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

The Autumn of the Patriarch

News of a Kidnapping

In Evil Hour

The General in His Labyrinth

Leaf Storm

Living to Tell the Tale

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech

Until August

Love in the Time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

No One Writes to the Colonel

Of Love and Other Demons

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The Scandal of the Century

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

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Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness. The stories draw their strength from M&aacute;rquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent

Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve

Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself

Their nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... 
 
These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience what it is to be an outsider living far from home. 
 
Strange Pilgrims is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 
 
'The first thing Señora 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 from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent' William Boyd 
 
'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton 
 
'Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself' New Statesman

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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