In the title story of this collection of exotic and mystical tales, Erendira accidentally burns down her grandmother's house and is forced to pay her relative back with money she earns from prostitution.
While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over...
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In the title story of this collection of exotic and mystical tales, Erendira accidentally burns down her grandmother's house and is forced to pay her relative back with money she earns from prostitution.
While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over...
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Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first timeWhilst her demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. Exhausted, she collapses into bed, toppling over a glowing candle...Her grandmother insists Erendira must repay her for the loss of the house. As she is dragged from town to town and hawked to soldiers and traders, Erendira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?Innocent Erendira and Other Stories is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
Critic Reviews
“Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do”
Salman Rushdie
'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what 'fabulous' really means' Time Out
About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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