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Description of the book innocent erendira and other stories. May, 2008 collected here are twentysix of gabriel garcia marquezs most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in spanish from three volumes. We round up the key texts from the master of magic realism. Gabriel garcia marquez was born on 6 march 1927 in aracataca, colombia, to gabriel eligio garcia and luisa santiaga marquez iguaran. Collected stories by gabriel garcia marquez alibris. However, this book love in the time of cholera is not less interesting and fascinating. Stories about his life tend to focus on the unique character of his inspiration, or his publishing success by the numbers fifty million copies of one hundred years of solitude sold worldwide, or his friendships, or his reading. May 01, 2008 buy collected stories stained pages by marquez, gabriel garcia isbn. From the 1968 collection no one writes to the colonel come stories of the town of macondoabout the muchdelayed funeral of local sovereign big mamma, a dentists revenge on the corrupt mayor extraction sans anesthetic, a priest who sees the devil, a thief who robs the pool hall of its. Collected stories by garcia marquez, gabriel and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Gabriel garcia marquez s short stories exemplify the authors control of his language, and ability to produce such memorable moods and emotions with such little amounts of letters. Love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez. Garcia marquez, familiarly known as gabo in his native country, is one of latin americas most famous writers.
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