Strange pilgrims: twelve stories
✍ Scribed by MÁRquez, Gabriel GarcÍA
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2014;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Edition
- First Vintage International edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 014191727X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Bon voyage, Mr. President -- The saint -- Sleeping Beauty and the airplane -- I sell my dreams -- "I only came to use the phone" -- The ghosts of August -- Maria dos Prazeres -- Seventeen poisoned Englishmen -- Tramontana -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness -- Light is like water -- The trail of your blood in the snow.;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.
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