Strange Pilgrims
$22.07
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2014
Summary
Marquez Day - A celebration of one of the world’s most loved writers, available in ebook for the first time.
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 - exp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968659 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241968658 |
| Author: | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 151g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Marquez 2014 |
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Celebratory and full of strange relish at life’s oddness. The stories draw their strength from M
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 *
Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve * Observer *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve * Observer *
Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself * New Statesman *
About The Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction, including Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.
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