Collected Stories -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paperback

"García Márquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review

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.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/13/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.34h x 4.99w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780060932688

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 130