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Strange Pilgrims

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

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Nov 14, 2006 | ISBN 9781400034697

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    About Strange Pilgrims

    In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.

    In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

    About Strange Pilgrims

    In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.

    In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

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    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 14, 2006 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400034697

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 15, 2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781101911136

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    Praise

    “A triumph of storytelling.” –San Francisco Chronicle“Full of relish at life’s oddness. . . . García Márquez’s sheer ability to hold and enthrall makes Strange Pilgrims fascinating and memorable.” –The New York Times Books Review“Psychologically sharp . . . altogether ingratiating."–The Washington Post"Nothing short of brilliant—each of these tales is a gem."–The Seattle Times“García Márquez at his best. With a surreal phrase or a magic image, he allows us to see reality, grave and comic at once, in a unique light.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1982

    Table Of Contents

    Prologue:
    Why Twelve, Why Stories, Why Pilgrims

    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

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